Abstract
Tort law is concerned with “interactions” in which one person has caused another harm (Seavy 1942, 73). Special quote marks are used, because unlike contract interactions, usually the parties do not knowingly deal with one another. For example, a car might run off the road and smash the plaintiffs fence. As the interactions involve harm, tort law is concerned with interactions that from an after the fact perspective are minus sum ones. Because contract law is based on whether before the fact an interaction is mutually expected to be beneficial, it concerns some interactions that after the fact are minus sum ones. Most of these contractual interactions that turn out to be minus sum ones can also be addressed in tort law.
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© 1987 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Bayles, M.D. (1987). Tort Law. In: Principles of Law. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3775-8_5
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