num_pages: 394
description: This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts * Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation and invasion of privacy. * Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions. * Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course. * In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy.
language: English
title: Understanding Torts
titlecomplete: Understanding Torts
genres: Law, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Lexis Nexis