Explain the concept of duty as applied to civil cases
What will be an ideal response?
Before you can recover in a tort action, you must establish damages, caused by defendant, and a breach of duty. For example anyone driving an automobile on a public road has a duty to drive carefully. Thus, to recover you must establish that the defendant breeched that duty. If a child is drowning and an onlooker makes no attempt to save the child, the onlooker is not civilly liable for death unless the onlooker had a duty to protect the child such as a parent, guardian, or carekeeper.
You might also like to view...
________ among female inmates is very high
a. High school education b. Excellent health c. Substance abuse d. Sexual aggression
18 USC 1345 can be considered to halt what type of violations:
a. Toxic waste dumping. b. Hazardous workplace conditions. c. Health care fraud. d. Securities fraud
Second-time offenders were allowed only ______ meals per day.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
The restorative justice model holds that __________ should be applied to prevent and control crime
a. deterrence b. incapacitation c. reconciliation d. retribution