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Vicarious Liability in Tort : a Comparative Perspective.
A detailed examination of the principle of vicarious liability in tort in both common and civil law legal systems.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of contents; Diagrams; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Preface; 1 What is vicarious liability?; 2 Establishing a general framework for liability; 3 The employer/employee relationship identifying the contract of employment; 4 Special difficulties borrowed employees and temporary workers; 5 Other relationships giving rise to liability; 6 Acting in the course of ones employment/functions/assigned tasks: determining the scope of vicarious liability; 7 Parental liability for the torts of their children a new form of vicarious liability?
- 8 Understanding vicarious liability reconciling policy and principle9 A postscript: a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?; Appendix: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes; Index.