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Torts: Vicarious Liability, Nuisance and Defenses
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- Principle: An employer is vicariously liable for torts committed by an employee in the course of employment.
Facts: A bank driver, while driving the bank cash van along the authorized route to collectā¦ - Principle: Volenti non fit injuria is a complete defense when the plaintiff freely consents to run the risk with full knowledge of its nature.
Facts: A spectator at a cricket match is struck by a ballā¦ - Principle: Strict liability applies when a person brings onto land and keeps there something likely to do mischief if it escapes, unless the escape was caused by an Act of God.
Facts: An unprecedentedā¦ - Principle: Private nuisance requires substantial and unreasonable interference with the plaintiff use and enjoyment of land.
Facts: A neighbor operates a metal fabrication machine generating 95 decibeā¦ - Principle: A master is not liable for torts committed by an employee when the employee is on an independent frolic of his own.
Facts: A delivery driver detours 25 kilometers away from his delivery zonā¦ - Principle: Truth (justification) is an absolute defense to an action for civil defamation in tort.
Facts: A journalist publishes that an accused was convicted of forgery, which is proven to be completā¦ - Principle: The doctrine of absolute liability (M.C. Mehta v. Union of India) allows no exceptions when an enterprise engages in an inherently hazardous activity.
Facts: Oleum gas escapes from a chemā¦ - Principle: False imprisonment requires complete deprivation of a person liberty without lawful justification.
Facts: A security guard blocks the north exit of a store, but the south and east exits remā¦ - Principle: Res ipsa loquitur shifts the burden of proof to the defendant when the accident is of a kind that does not ordinarily occur without negligence.
Facts: A surgical sponge is left inside a pā¦ - Principle: Assault is an act that creates reasonable apprehension in the plaintiff mind of immediate unlawful violence.
Facts: A man points an unloaded gun at someone who believes it is loaded, threatā¦
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