negligence in civil law
In civil law the term ‘negligence’ is used in two main senses, one referring to the tort of negligence and the other to a certain sort of conduct. The tort ...
negligence in civil law Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
... in civil law For present purposes, civil law is contrasted with criminal law. In civil law, the term ‘negligence’ is used in two main senses. One sense, specific to tort law , refers to the ‘tort of negligence’. The other sense refers to conduct of a certain quality—ie ‘negligent conduct’. Negligence as a tort Saying that negligence is ‘a tort’ means that it provides a basis on which a person can make a ‘tort claim’ against another and on which the other can be held liable ‘in tort’. Understood in this way, a tort is a set of rules and principles that...
negligence in civil law
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R. W. Hoyle
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...and interests above the needs of their counties. JPs in the 1530s rushed to tell Cromwell and the Council of potentially treasonable gossip out of fear that their negligence might be discovered and found culpable. At other periods the desire to avoid central interference led JPs to keep the centre ignorant of their actions: in 1793 the magistrates in Bristol chose not to tell the Home Office of riots in which the militia had shot rioters. Until the early 19th century the English had laws rather than government, hence the information that central...
Exodus Reference library
Walter Houston and Walter Houston
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...legal person. ( 21:28–36 ) The case of the goring ox is a topic also in Mesopotamian codes. It serves as a standard example of the way to treat cases of negligence, and of how to distinguish between accident ( vv. 28, 35 ) and culpable negligence. The one feature that would not be found in contemporary or modern laws is that the ox itself, if it has killed a person, is treated as a criminal and stoned rather than slaughtered in the normal way ( vv. 28, 29, 32 ). Here religious factors enter in. The ox has transgressed boundaries between human and animal and...
Leviticus Reference library
Lester L. Grabbe and Lester L. Grabbe
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...( vv. 33–4 ); have honest scales and measures ( vv. 35–6 ). Many of these are what we might call civil law, but here they are given a religious sanction and thus brought under cultic law. The motive clause, ‘(for) I am YHWH’, occurs frequently. The laws proper ( vv. 3–36 ) are not of a piece because there is some overlap between the various ones. For example, the sabbath is mentioned twice ( vv. 3, 30 ). It has been noted that vv. 11–18 have a common vocabulary in ‘friend’ ( rēa῾ ), ‘associate’ (῾ āmît ), and ‘people’ (῾ am ) ( Wenham 1979 : 267 ). Scholars...
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