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Peculiar Risk In American Tort Law, Ellen S. Pryor
Peculiar Risk In American Tort Law, Ellen S. Pryor
Pepperdine Law Review
American tort law includes a significant strand of liability tied to an intriguing concept variously termed “peculiar risk,” “special danger,” and “special risk inherent in the work,” among others. Peculiar risk presents a basis for liability different from other standards or actions that trigger liability in tort law - it is different from intent, recklessness, negligence, nuisance, and abnormally dangerous activity. Both England and the United States endorsed versions of the doctrine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, by 1965, American and English tort law had sharply diverged on the doctrine. American courts continued to apply it; …
Searching For United States Tort Law In The Antipodes, Peter Cane
Searching For United States Tort Law In The Antipodes, Peter Cane
Pepperdine Law Review
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