The Law of Torts alongwith Consumer Protection Act and Compensation under Motor Vehicle Act

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Description
The Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, put together, provide a network of remedies for all types of social wrongs excepting those which arise out of typical types of Constitutional matters, commercial or property transactions. This set of two laws, one operating as a common law, and the other as the framework of statutory remedies are providing to victims of pain and suffering caused by tortious acts or consumer wrongs. By virtue of these two laws the mission of the legal system to assure that whenever there is a wrong, there must be a remedy is being growingly fulfilled.         
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Contents
Law of Torts
1.     Definition and Nature of Tort
2.     Foundation of Tortious Liability
3.     General Conditions of Liability in Torts
4.     Mental Element in Tort
5.     Personal Disabilities of Limitations of Personal Capacity
6.     Felonious Torts
7.     Foreign Torts
8.     General Exceptions or Defences to Liability in Torts
9.     Discharge of Torts
10.   Remedies for Torts
11.   Remoteness of Damage
12.   Novus Actus Inter Veniens
13.   Nervous Shock
14.   Joint Tort - Feasors
15.   Vicarious Liability
16.   Liability of State For Torts
17.   Assault, Battary and Mayhem
18.   False Imprisonment
19.   Defamation
20.   Torts of Malicious abuse of Legal Process
21.   Torts of Domestic Relations
22.   Torts relating to Immovable Property trespass
23.   Torts relating to movable Property trespass
24.   Deceit and Mis-satement or Torts of Injurious Falsehood
25.   Torts to Incorporeal personal Property
26.   Negligence
27.   Contributory Negligence
28.   Torts relating to strict and absolute liability
29.   Nuisance
30.   Torts Founded on Contracts
31.   Torts Affecting Contractual and Business Relations
32.   Compensation under the Motor vehicle act
SUMMARY
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Author Details
Professor M. N. Shukla's textbook on "The Law of torts, Consumer Protection Act, 2019 & Compensation under Motor Vehicle Act" is diligent effort to compendiously explain the fundamentals and basic principles of the above mentioned set of laws. Predominantly, the Law of Torts is a judge-made law. Tellingly, it becomes indispensable to address the judicial pronouncements of Indian courts and foreign Courts that have chiselled the subject into what it is read as today. Judicial developments of pertinent concepts like General Exceptions, Joint Tort-Feasors, Defamation, Negligence, different types of liabilities and so on, have been meticulously dealt with. The essential developments of the Consumer Protection Act and Motor Vehicle Act, in the form of amendments and dictums, have also been discussed in the same manner.