Ratanlal and Dhirajlal The Law of Torts (Hardbound)

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Description
The book has undergone another round of revision in preparation of the 29th Edition. It is interesting to note that the Supreme Court while dealing with Adultery has traced it back to the sixth century Anglo-Saxon England, where common law recognized adultery as a tort and prescribed an action for loss of consortium based on the property interest a husband had in his wife and damages were accordingly payable for the tort of adultery'. This is however not the position today. Torts is no longer construed in the traditional sense. Apart from the regular civil action, there are tortious claims in contractual relationships between parties; under the constitution; claims under codified statutes such as under the Motor Vehicles Act or Consumer Protection Act etc. A short section on the "Forums for tortious claims" is added to the commentary to identify the forum for tortious claims. The Indian Supreme Court in Genimi Bay has paved way for adjudication of tortious claim in arbitration provided such claims are so interlinked with the contractual claims covered under the arbitration clause. This was also the view of Lord Denning in the Astro Vencedor judgment, which developed the 'close connection' theory that the claim in tort must have a sufficiently close connection with the claim under contract.
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Contents
I. General principles
II. Some general elements in torts
III. Personal capacity
IV. Foreign torts
V. Justification of torts
VI. Death in relation to torts
VII. Discharge of torts
VIII. Liability for wrongs committed by others
IX. Remedies
X. Classification of torts
XI. Trespass to person
XII. Defamation
XIII. Malicious proceedings
XIV. Wrongs relating to domestic and other miscellaneous rights
XV. Tort to reality or immovable property
XVI. Torts to personality or movable property
XVII. Torts affecting immovable as well as Movable property
XVIII. Torts to incorporeal personal property
XIX. Negligence and allied topics
XX. Nuisance
XXI. Fraud and negligent misstatement
Summary
Subject Index
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Author Details
Ratanlal Ranchhoddas - B.A., LL.B., Advocate (O.S.), Bombay High Court
Dhirajlal Keshavlal Thakore - B.A., Of Linclon’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law
Akshay Sapre : Advocate, High court of Madhya pradesh