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dc.contributor.authorGreen, Leon
dc.date2021-11-25T13:34:43.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:45:30Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:45:30Z
dc.date.issued1927-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
dc.identifierfss_papers/4457
dc.identifier.contextkey4222133
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/3951
dc.description.abstractThe attempt which common law courts have made to resolve every major problem of legal liability in tort into terms of causal relation marks the most glaring and persistent fallacy in tort law. Succeeding generations of judges continue this attempt without apparent protest. The legal mind indicates its kinship with the common mind in no more certain way than by rejecting the simplest truth for some complex superstructure of metaphysics. Of all the problems of the law of torts the problem of causal relation is the simplest, but it has become so enmeshed in meaningless terminology that there is little hope for its rationalization. Within the last half century with rare exception has any court given the problem its proper place in determining responsibility for tortious wrongs
dc.subjecttort law
dc.subjectcausal relation
dc.subjectnegligence
dc.titleContributory Negligence and Proximate Cause
dc.source.journaltitleFaculty Scholarship Series
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:45:30Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4457
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5460&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1


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