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IMPUTED LIABILITY [5 records]

Record 1 2016-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... the essence of conspiracy is mutual consent to a common purpose ...

CONT

A tort is imputed to several persons as joint tortfeasors in at least three instances, viz. agency, vicarious liability and concerted action... As regards the third, the critical element in that those participating in the commission of the tort must have acted in furtherance of a common design. There must be "concerted action to a common end"...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Action that has been planned, arranged, adjusted, agreed on and settled between parties acting together pursuant to some design or scheme.

CONT

A tort is imputed to several persons as joint tortfeasors in at least three instances, viz, agency, vicarious liability and concerted action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A chauffeur who takes his employer's car without authority collides with a cyclist. His employer is not responsible. Yet if the car also suffered damage and was entrusted to the employer under a bailment for purposes of hire on repair, he would be answerable to the bailor, not because of any vicarious or imputed liability but because of his personal duty as bailee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

responsabilité imputée : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Liability that imputed responsibility of one person for the acts of another; occurs "when the law holds one person responsible for the misconduct of another, although he is himself free from personal blameworthiness or fault. It is therefore an instance of strict(no fault) liability".

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Acception propre au droit des délits.

OBS

Le mot «vicariale» est un anglicisme en ce sens. Dans la langue générale, c'est un adjectif qui désigne ce qui est relatif aux vicaires.

OBS

responsabilité du fait d'autrui : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Anyone who keeps a mischievous animal does so at his peril, on pain of being responsible for the harm it may do in indulging its dangerous instincts, provided he knows or is presumed to know its vicious disposition... liability for dangerous animals postulates knowledge, express or imputed, of their vicious propensity...

OBS

As opposed to "express knowledge."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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