tort liability

collocation in English

meaningsoftortandliability

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tort
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtɔːt/us
/ˈtɔːrt/
an action that is wrong but can be dealt with in a civil court rather than a ...
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liability
noun
uk
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact that someone is legally responsible ...
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(Definition oftortandliabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftort liability

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There are several doctrines that define the conditions of intentionaltortliabilitythat do similar work.
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Tortliabilityfor nondisclosure: the physician's legal obligations to disclose patient illness and injury.
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Workmen's compensation laws may well have been an improvement over the previous system oftortliability, but many of the old problems still remained.
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In those days the provision was put on the statute book only in respect of industrial or economictortliability.
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That, in the first place, does not solve the question oftortliability.
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There has always been one immunity which has been special and separate from the rest, and that is immunity of the trade union itself from thetortliability.
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The sole reason for the introduction was that employers did not exist who could be sued in the civil courts under the principles oftortliability.
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It may be—this is pure supposition—that it will report in favour of some form oftortliabilitysurviving in parallel with some other system of no-fault liability.
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Tortliabilitymay be much more difficult to prove.
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His scholarship addressestortliabilityand moral hazard, criminal punishment, health regulation, and business regulation.
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The licensee falls between the anticipated or discovered trespasser and the invitee on the sliding scale oftortliabilityassessed to landowners.
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In these circumstances there was, and is, no better rationalisation for the relevant head oftortliabilitythan assumption of responsibility.
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The absence of any unifying principle drawing together the different heads of economictortliabilityhas often been remarked upon.
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The specter oftortliabilityin an area of such prolific speech would have an obviously chilling effect.
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In general, reporting in good faith shields the physician or health care worker fromtortliability.
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The baseline common law regime oftortliabilityis negligence.
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Still, despite the existence of such futuretortliability, the parties attributed no value to the assumption of this liability by the purchasers.
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Criminal prosecuting attorneys and judges are protected fromtortliabilityfor malicious prosecution by doctrines of prosecutorial immunity and judicial immunity.
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Cohen has repeatedly rejected the argument of business groups thattortliabilityshould be limited.
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