... heads of liability. I will discuss the developments the plaintiff and the defendant have gone under in seeking actions against each other in both sides of tort and contract. Tort law and contract law are the two main areas of the English law of obligations. The word tort is derived from the French word for wrong, whereas in English usage covers a part of what might loosely be referred to as the law of 'wrongs'. The area of tort covers a variety of forms of actions in which plaintiffs use civil proceedings in order to seek compensation for harm occurred to them by others. The vast majority of tort claims are based on duties which are imposed by the general law and which are owed to individuals rather than society at large. Tort duties exist independently of any contractual relationship, that is, of any agreement between the parties and of ...

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