Law of Torts and Consumer Protection

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Description
While Criminal Law deals with Crimes which are harmful to society, civil law deals with civil wrongs done to individuals which infringe the right of a private person through his acts which are unauthorised by law. The subject Torts' deals with such civil wrongs, independent of contract, for which the appropriate remedy is an action for damage or injury. Torts' is the mother science of civil law. It provides both the theory and practice of civil law. It describes the civil wrongs which are punishable and also provides adequate remedies as per the severity of the damage or injury. The civil wrongs end with damages or injuries to individual(s). The study of Torts' helps the citizens not to perform wrongs as they are punishable and it also enlightens them to seek judicial redressal for the wrongs done to him by others.
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Contents
Unit I : Nature of Law of Torts
Chapter 1    -    Definition of 'Tort'
Chapter 2    -    Essentials or Elements or Components or Ingredients of Torts
                            [Wrongful Act and Legal Damages]
Chapter 3    -    Development of Law of Torts in England and India
Chapter 4    -    'Damnum Sine Injuria' and 'Injuria Sine Damnum' 
Chapter 5    -    Tort Distinguished from Crime
Chapter 6    -    Tort Distinguished from Breach of Contract, Breach of Trust and Bailment
Chapter 7    -    General Principles of Liability in Torts
Chapter 8    -    Parties to Proceedings [Personal Cpacity to sue and to be Sued]
Unit II : Defences and Liablity of Torts
Chapter 1    -    General Defences to an Action in Torts
Chapter 2    -    Vicarious Liability [Liability for Wrongs Committed by Others]
Chapter 3    -    Liability of the State for Torts [Vicarious Liability of Government for the
                            Torts Committed by the Servants]
Chapter 4    -    Defence of Sovereign Immunity
Chapter 5    -    Joint Liability [Liability of Joint Tortfeasors]
Chapter 6    -    Rule of Strict Liability [Rule in the Rylands v. Fletcher]
Chapter 7    -    Doctrine of Absolute Liability
                            [Rule in M.C. Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1987 SC 965]
Chapter 8    -    Occupier's Liability [Liability for Dangerous Land or Premises and Structures]
Chapter 9    -    Liability of a Manufacture to the Consumer
                            [Liability of Owners of Dangerous Chattels]
Chapter 10  -    Liability of Animals [The Scienter Rule]
Chapter 11  -    Extinction of Release or Discharge of Tortious Liability
Unit III : Specific Torts Affecting the Person and Property
Chapter 1    -    Trespass to the Person : Assault and Battery
Chapter 2    -    Wrongful or False Imprisonment : A Residuary Trespass to Person
Chapter 3    -    Malicious Prosecution [Abuse of Legal Procedure]
Chapter 4    -    Nervous Shock
Chapter 5    -    Trespass to Land [Trespass to Property] [Torts to Realty or Immovable Property]
Chapter 6    -    Nuisance
Chapter 7    -    Torts Relating to Movable Property [Trespass to Goods, Detinue and Conversion]
Chapter 8    -    Torts Relating to Intellectual Property [Torts Relating to Incorporeal
                            Personal Property]
Chapter 9    -    Liability Arising out of Accidents [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988]
Unit IV : Torts  of Defamation, Negligence, Relations, Conspiracy, Damages, Defences and Remedies
Chapter 1    -    Defamation
Chapter 2    -    Negligence
Chapter 3    -    torts against Business Relations
Chapter 4    -    Malicious or Injurious Falsehood
Chapter 5    -    Negligent Misstatement
Chapter 6    -    Passing off of Damages
Chapter 7    -    Conspiracy
Chapter 8    -    Torts Affecting Family or Domestic Relations
Chapter 9    -    Remedies
Chapter 10  -    Discharge of Torts [Extinction of Liability in Tort]
Chapter 11  -    Death in Relation to Tort
Unit V : Consumer Laws
Chapter 1    -    Common Law and the Consumer
Chapter 2    -    Duty to take care and Liability for Negligence
Chapter 3    -    Product Liability (Caveat Venditor)
Chapter 4    -    Consumerism
Chapter 5    -    Consumer Protection Act, 2019
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Author Details
Dr. S.R. Myneni, M.A., M.Ed., LL.M., Ph.D., P.G. Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication, P.G. Diploma in Econometrics, P.G. Diploma in Mathematics Ekadhika in Vedic Mathematicss, Rashtra Bhasha Praveena (Hindi) Diploma in Russian Language.
Foreword By : Hon'ble Sri Justice L. Narasimha Reddy (Judge, High Court of A.P)