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Incidental Injuries From Exercise Of Lawful Rights, Thomas M. Cooley Dec 1875

Incidental Injuries From Exercise Of Lawful Rights, Thomas M. Cooley

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In the present paper those cases will be considered in which one person suffers an injury in consequence of the exercise by another person of his legal rights. Many such cases occur in which, although the injury may be severe, the law will award no compensation, there being no tort in the case because there is an absence of that wrong the concurrence of which with damage is essential to an action. Negligence might supply the wrong, but we now speak of cases of which that is not an element.


Incidental Injuries From Exercise Of Lawful Rights, Thomas M. Cooley Dec 1875

Incidental Injuries From Exercise Of Lawful Rights, Thomas M. Cooley

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In the present paper those cases will be considered in which one person suffers an injury in consequence of the exercise by another person of his legal rights. Many such cases occur in which, although the injury may be severe, the law will award no compensation, there being no tort in the case because there is an absence of that wrong the concurrence of which with damage is essential to an action. Negligence might supply the wrong, but we now speak of cases of which that is not an element.