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independent tortfeasors — Tortfeasors who injured the same person or the same property but who acted without common design or concert of action and in the absence of any circumstance, such as common duty, joint enterprise, or relationship, which would make them joint… … Ballentine's law dictionary
tortfeasors — tÉ”rt‚fɪËzÉ™(r) /tÉ”Ë n. one who commits an injustice, one who causes harm (Law) … English contemporary dictionary
joint tortfeasors — two or more persons responsible for a tort. Courts have power to allocate responsibility among the joint tortfeasors, but each is wholly and severally liable to the victim. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001. joint tortfeasors … Law dictionary
joint tortfeasors — Two or more persons who unite in committing a tort, or whose acts concur in contributing to and producing a single indivisible injury upon a third person. 52 Am J1st Torts §§ 110 et seq. Two or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort for … Ballentine's law dictionary
consecutive tortfeasors — >> tortfeasor. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
joint tortfeasors — several people who jointly caused damage or committed a wrongdoing (Law) … English contemporary dictionary
concurrent tortfeasors — Those whose independent, negligent acts combined or concurred at one point in time to injure a third party. Radford Shelton & Associates Dental Laboratory, Inc. v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc., Okl.App., 569 P.2d 506, 509. See also comparative… … Black's law dictionary
concurrent tortfeasors — Those whose independent, negligent acts combined or concurred at one point in time to injure a third party. Radford Shelton & Associates Dental Laboratory, Inc. v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc., Okl.App., 569 P.2d 506, 509. See also comparative… … Black's law dictionary
liability — li·a·bil·i·ty /ˌlī ə bi lə tē/ n pl ties 1: the quality or state of being liable 2: something for which one is liable: as a: a financial obligation: debt tax liability the bonds … Law dictionary
Barker v. Corus — Barker v Corus (UK) plc [2006] UKHL 20 is a notable House of Lords decision in the area of industrial liability in English law, which deals with the area of causation. In this case, the House of Lords reconsidered its ruling in the earlier… … Wikipedia
