ACTG 2P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Todd Bertuzzi, Intentional Tort, Public Nuisance

• School: Brock University
• Department: Business - Accounting
• Course: ACTG 2P40
• Professor: Erica Bush

Document Summary

Wrongful act or infringement of right that leads to civil legal liability. A tort identifies a set of circumstances that creates a right to claim compensations. Two principles of tort: the fault of the defendant, the causation of harm. Liability is not based on fault- liable even if blameless. Dog bite, and dog owner"s liability act. Economic, social and political considerations of objectives that are believed to be beneficial to society as a whole. Determines whether liabilities should be based on fault or on strict liability. - liability of employer to compensate for tort committed by an employee during the course of his or her employment. Employers have pockets - to be able to pay. Activity of conduct was done deliberately. harm or damage must occur for it to be actionable examples: Assault - threatening to severely harm someone else. An intentional creation in the mind of another of a reasonable apprehension of immediate physical harm.