Legal Jurisdiction
See also: tort (conflict)Legal jurisdictions whose legal system developed from the English common law have the concept of tortious liability. There are technical differences from one jurisdiction to the next in proving the various torts.
- Australian tort law
- Canadian tort law
- English tort law
- Scots Law of Delict (broadly equivalent, deals more with principle rather than specific wrongs)
- United States tort law
- Irish tort law
In addition, other legal systems have concepts comparable to torts. An example would be the rabbinic category of Damages; though a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law as it was enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and took effect in 1947 (a year before Israel was made a state).
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