Torts
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136182
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85136182#concept
Variants
- Civil wrongs
- Delicts
- Injuries (Law)
- Quasi delicts
- Wrongful acts
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Abuse of rights
- Alienation of affections
- Assault and battery
- Attractive nuisance
- Chicanery (Law)
- Competition, Unfair
- Conspiracy
- Constitutional torts
- Damages
- Danger (Law)
- Dilapidations
- Discovery abuse
- Duress (Law)
- False imprisonment
- Fraud
- Government liability
- Joint tortfeasors
- Liability for animals
- Liability for condition and use of land
- Liability for environmental damages
- Liability for fire damages
- Liability for landslide damages
- Liability for nuclear damages
- Liability for oil pollution damages
- Liability for water pollution damages
- Libel and slander
- Lost earnings damages
- Lost profits damages
- Malicious accusation
- Malicious prosecution
- Malpractice
- Mugging
- Nuisances
- Personal injuries
- Plagiarism
- Proximate cause (Law)
- Public nuisance
- Res ipsa loquitur doctrine
- Respondeat superior
- Seduction
- Strict liability
- Tortious interference
- Trespass
- Trover and conversion
- Waste (Law)
- Wrongful death
Related Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
- Torts--Computer-assisted instruction
- Torts--Econometric models
- Torts--Economic aspects
- Torts--Examinations
- Torts--Law and legislation
- Torts--Law and legislation--US states
- Torts--Mathematical models
- Torts--Periodicals
- Torts--Philosophy
- Torts--Public opinion
- Torts--Study and teaching
- Torts--Trial practice
- Torts--US states
Sources
- found: Developing delict, 2001.
- found: Black's law dict.(delict: a violation of the law; esp. a wrongful act or omission giving rise to a claim for compensation; tort, a delict is a civil wrong)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 2005-09-27: new
- 2010-01-12: revised
Alternate Formats