Introduction to Law

When a thief steals your bike, you may sue the thief in tort and claim damages from him. The thief will then have a choice to pa ...

5.7 Creation, Transfer, and Termination of Property Rights A large part of property law provides rules on how property rights ca ...

certainty. It is important that discrepancies between the factual situation (posses- sion) and the official legal situation (the ...

mentioned above are less likely to occur. To make this known, the requirements for the transfer of a right aim to ensure that th ...

Germany and the Netherlands are countries in which a tradition system is in use. England has a tradition system for land and for ...

5.7.3 Termination Property rights can be created and transferred, but they can also be terminated. There are generally two ways ...

Imagine an EU citizen buying objects online from another EU Member State. An important question that needs to be answered is whe ...

Recommended Literature Van Erp JHM (2006) Comparative property law. In: Reimann M, Zimmermann R (eds) The Oxford handbook of com ...

Tort Law 6 G.E. van Maanen and Jaap Hage 6.1 The Domain of Tort Donoghue vs Stevenson,[ 1932 ]AC 562 On August 26, 1928, Mrs. Ma ...

Why should the damage that a victim suffered under certain circumstances be shifted to a different person at all? What are the ...

development has changed the “law of torts” into “tort law,” but the field of tort law still exhibits the traces of the old situa ...

A typical example is when a burglar breaks into someone else’s house and steals a laptop. This behavior is both wrongful and int ...

6.2.2 The Grounds for Tort Liability What are the grounds if a tortfeasor (a person who has committed a tort) has to pay for the ...

related to strict liability) are terms that are both overly concise and ambiguous. As long as they are not defined precisely, th ...

I return’. Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?” He said, “He who s ...

Breach of Duty The basic idea is that a balance must be struck between the costs of precautionary measures and the costs of acci ...

Code Civil Art. 1382: Every human act which causes damage to another person obligates the agent to compensate the damages. Code ...

Cellar Hatch(HR 05- 11 - 1965 ,NJ 1966, 136 ) Mr. Sjouwerman was an employee of the Coca-Cola Company. He was making a delivery ...

Most importantly, these principles establish that it is not relevant whether the specificdanger or risk that materialized was ac ...

Ex AnteIt is also possible to use this case to formulate a rule that has the best results for this case and all future similar c ...