The Law of Torts (4th ed.)
One of Pollock’s more substantial works which also contains his draft on a law of torts prepared for the government of India.
The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations arising from Civil Wrongs in the Common Law: to which is added the Draft of a Code of Civil Wrongs prepared for the Government of India, Fourth Edition (London: Stevens and Sons, 1895).
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Table of Contents
- TO THE HONOURABLE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Junr., A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- ADDENDA.
- INDEX OF CASES.
- YEAR BOOKS CITED.
- THE LAW OF TORTS.
- Book I.—: GENERAL PART.
- CHAPTER I.: THE NATURE OF TORT IN GENERAL.
- Group A.: Personal wrongs.Personal Wrongs.
- Group B.: Wrongs to property.Wrongs to Property.
- Group C.: Wrongs affecting person and property.Wrongs to Person, Estate, and Property generally.
- CHAPTER II.: PRINCIPLES OF LIABILITY.
- CHAPTER III.: PERSONS AFFECTED BY TORTS.
- 1.—: Limitations of Personal Capacity.
- 2.—: Effect of a Party’s Death.
- 3.: Liability for the Torts of Agents and Servants.
- CHAPTER IV.: GENERAL EXCEPTIONS.
- 1.—: Acts of State.
- 2.—: Judicial Acts.
- 3.—: Executive Acts.
- 4.—: Quasi-judicial Acts.
- 5.—: Parental and quasi-parental Authority.
- 6.—: Authorities of Necessity.
- 7.—: Damage incident to authorized Acts.
- 8.—: Inevitable Accident.
- 9.—: Exercise of common Rights.
- 10.—: Leave and Licence: Volenti non fit iniuria.
- 11.—: Works of necessity.
- 12.—: Private defence.
- 13.—: Plaintiff a wrong-doer.
- CHAPTER V.: OF REMEDIES FOR TORTS.
- Book II.: SPECIFIC WRONGS.
- CHAPTER VI.: PERSONAL WRONGS.
- I.—: Assault and Battery.
- II.—: False Imprisonment.
- III.—: Injuries in Family Relations.
- CHAPTER VII.: DEFAMATION.
- 1.—: Slander.
- 2.—: Defamation in general.
- 3.—: Exceptions.
- CHAPTER VIII.: WRONGS OF FRAUD AND MALICE.
- I.—: Deceit.
- II.—: Slander of Title.
- III.—: Malicious Prosecution and Abuse of Process.
- IV.—: Other Malicious Wrongs.
- CHAPTER IX.: WRONGS TO POSSESSION AND PROPERTY.
- I.—: Duties regarding Property generally.
- II.—: Trespass.
- III.—: Injuries to Reversion.
- IV.—: Waste.
- V.—: Conversion.
- VI.—: Injuries between Tenants in Common.
- VII.—: Extended Protection of Possession.
- VIII.—: Wrongs to Easements, etc.
- IX.—: Grounds of Justification and Excuse.
- X.—: Remedies.
- CHAPTER X.: NUISANCE.
- CHAPTER XI.: NEGLIGENCE(a).
- I.—: The General Conception.
- II.—: Evidence of Negligence.
- III.—: Contributory Negligence.
- IV.—: Auxiliary Rules and Presumptions.
- CHAPTER XII.: DUTIES OF INSURING SAFETY.
- CHAPTER XIII.: SPECIAL RELATIONS OF CONTRACT AND TORT.
- I.—: Alternative Forms of Remedy on the same Cause of Action.
- II.—: Concurrent Causes of Action.
- III.—: Causes of action dependent on collateral contract. What did Lumley v. Gye decide? Causes of Action in Tort dependent on a Contract not between the same Parties.
- IV.—: Measure of Damages and other Incidents of the Remedy.
- APPENDIX
- APPENDIX A. HISTORICAL NOTE ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE FORMS OF PERSONAL ACTION.
- APPENDIX B. EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY ACT, 1880.
- APPENDIX C. STATUTES OF LIMITATION.
- An Acte for lymytacion of Accions, and for avoyding of Suits in Lowe. (21 James I. c. 16.)
- An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice. (4 5 Anne, c. 3)(a).
- An Act to amend the Laws of England and Ireland affecting Trade and Commerce. (Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856, 19 20 Vict. c. 97, s. 12.)
- APPENDIX D. CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE IN ROMAN LAW.
- DRAFT OF A CIVIL WRONGS BILL, Prepared for the Government of India.
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- A Bill to define and amend certain parts of the Law of Civil Wrongs. Preliminary.
- GENERAL PART.
- Chapter I.: General Principles of Liability.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Chapter II.: General Exceptions.
- Illustrations.
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- SPECIAL PART.
- Chapter III.: Assault and False Imprisonment.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Chapter IV.: Defamation.
- Exceptions.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Chapter V.: Wrongs against Good Faith.
- Illustrations.
- Chapter VI.: Wrongs to Property.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Chapter VII.: Nuisance.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Chapter VIII.: Negligence.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Illustrations.
- Chapter IX.: Of Damages for Civil Wrongs(l).
- Illustration.
- Illustrations.
- THE SCHEDULE. Acts of the Governor General in Council.
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