... legal systems. There are a lot of definitions of "tort", one of more recent, is given by Peter Birks: The breach of a legal duty which affects the interests of an individual to a degree which the law regards as sufficient to allow that individual to complain on his or her own account rather then as a representative of society as a whole.1 I think considering any legal issue it is advantageous to look at historical background of the subject. So, I want to include brief information about historical development of tort. In the early common law, crimes and torts were not differentiated. All wrongs were classified into felonies (criminal offence) and those that were not felonies. There was also a special group of offences referred as "trespasses", within which misdemeanor and torts were mixed and it was not possible to distinguish them. The word "trespass" itself was ...

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