Michael Lobban
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199258826
- eISBN:
- 9780191705168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258826.003.0024
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
Traditional tort doctrine taught that a person who intentionally performed an unlawful act which harmed another was liable for the damage suffered. In the second half of the 19th century, judges and ...
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Traditional tort doctrine taught that a person who intentionally performed an unlawful act which harmed another was liable for the damage suffered. In the second half of the 19th century, judges and jurists sought to extend this law, to hold those who performed otherwise lawful acts liable if they had done so with the intention of harming others and with no justification. This development was part of the late 19th-century attempt to put the law of tort on a set of broad, theoretical principles. This chapter discusses malice and intent in early 19th-century law, economic torts, rethinking malice and intent, and rethinking conspiracy.Less
Traditional tort doctrine taught that a person who intentionally performed an unlawful act which harmed another was liable for the damage suffered. In the second half of the 19th century, judges and jurists sought to extend this law, to hold those who performed otherwise lawful acts liable if they had done so with the intention of harming others and with no justification. This development was part of the late 19th-century attempt to put the law of tort on a set of broad, theoretical principles. This chapter discusses malice and intent in early 19th-century law, economic torts, rethinking malice and intent, and rethinking conspiracy.
