(redirected fromGeneral tort principles) Thesaurus Medical Legal Financial Encyclopedia tort (tôrt) n.Law A wrong that is committed by someone who is legally obligated to provide a certain amount of carefulness in behavior to another and that causes injury to that person, who may seek compensati...
New perspectives on the criminal liability of corporate bodies : general principles of criminal liability and specific offencesThe capacity of corporate bodies for criminal liability is an area of law which has received very little attention in South African law. The traditional premise of criminal ...
which declares that –[t]here shall be a Prosecutor-General appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission.The Judicial Service Commission, in turn, is a body constituted of the Chief Justice, a judge, the Attorney-General, and two members of the legal prof...
for purposes of study and classification, of a large set of discreet types of actions which would continue to develop in their separate ways, or whether it now reflected the application of some broad general principles that were implicit in the structure of the older law and which would hencefo...