What Tort Law DoesCivil wrongs outside contract, and the interests they protect.LawContractDuties the parties choseOwed only to the other partyAims to fulfil expectationsLoss measured againstperformanceAgreement is the sourceTortDuties imposed by lawOwed to a class of personsAims to restore the prior positionLoss measured against the harmThe law is the sourceTHE DIFFERENCE THAT MATTERSThe same facts can give rise to both. A negligent professional maybreach a contract and commit a tort simultaneously.Educational reference. Tort also serves deterrence and loss distribution,not compensation alone.What Tort Law Doeslearnposters.com
What Tort Law Does — printable law & society wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the What Tort Law Does poster

Contract against Tort, side by side.

Educational reference. Tort also serves deterrence and loss distribution, not compensation alone.

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What’s on the What Tort Law Does poster?
Contract against Tort, side by side. Contract: Duties the parties chose; Contract: Owed only to the other party; Contract: Aims to fulfil expectations; Contract: Loss measured against performance; Contract: Agreement is the source; Tort: Duties imposed by law; Tort: Owed to a class of persons; Tort: Aims to restore the prior position; Tort: Loss measured against the harm; Tort: The law is the source; The same facts can give rise to both. A negligent professional may breach a contract…. Educational reference. Tort also serves deterrence and loss distribution, not compensation alone.
Who is the What Tort Law Does poster for?
What Tort Law Does belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tort can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the What Tort Law Does poster?
Tort compensates harm caused by breach of a duty the law imposes, not one you agreed to. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Tort Law Does belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with What Tort Law Does?
Causation, Damages and Defamation sit alongside What Tort Law Does in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CausationDamagesDefamation
Is the What Tort Law Does poster free to download and print?
Yes. What Tort Law Does downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the What Tort Law Does poster print at?
What Tort Law Does is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Tort Law Does loses nothing.Printing guide

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