Law Defined
Tort - A definition
Monday, February 26th, 2007Torts, sometimes called delicts, are civil wrongs. To have acted tortiously, one must have breached a duty to another person, or infringed some pre-existing legal right. A simple example might be accidentally hitting someone with a cricket ball. Under negligence law, the most common form of tort, the injured party can make a claim against […]
International law – A definition
Monday, February 26th, 2007In a global economy, law is globalising too. International law can refer to three things; public international law, private international law or conflict of laws and the law of supranational organisations.
Public international law concerns the relationships between sovereign nations. It has a special status as law because there is no international police force, and […]
