To clarify tort stuff, and because I like the word tort:
Nutty, how is this tort related?
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
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Wolfram - May 06, 2003 2:45:54 pm PDT #1224 of 10289
Visilurking
Jon B. - May 06, 2003 2:49:21 pm PDT #1225 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think she just wanted to say "tort."
tort! tort! tort!
See? Fun! I feel like the Swedish Chef!
DXMachina - May 06, 2003 2:50:53 pm PDT #1226 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I feel like the Swedish Chef!
b.org, b.org, b.org...
Beverly - May 06, 2003 2:58:39 pm PDT #1227 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
tort! tort! tort!
I feel like the Swedish Chef!
b.org, b.org, b.org...
t stern
Do you have any idea how hard it is to tongue waggle and giggle at the same time?
t /stern
Nutty - May 06, 2003 2:59:51 pm PDT #1228 of 10289
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Oh, so tort doesn't mean of or relating to law things I don't understand? That was my impression based on what Congress was thinking about doing a few years ago.
Or, um, yeah. I mean funny-shaped cakes.
DXMachina - May 06, 2003 3:00:44 pm PDT #1229 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Tortes, then...
Consuela - May 06, 2003 3:25:43 pm PDT #1230 of 10289
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so tort doesn't mean of or relating to law things I don't understand?
Tort refers pretty exclusively to civil causes of action between individuals, like libel, or assault, false imprisonment, that sort of thing. That distinguishes it from criminal or contractual causes of action.
Wolfram - May 06, 2003 3:38:51 pm PDT #1231 of 10289
Visilurking
Tort refers pretty exclusively to civil causes of action between individuals, like libel, or assault, false imprisonment, that sort of thing. That distinguishes it from criminal or contractual causes of action.
Yes. A tort action is a civil action for damages based on injury caused to another. Like Consuela said, it's pretty much any civil action that dosen't arise out of a contractual or domestic relationship.
Laura - May 06, 2003 3:49:49 pm PDT #1232 of 10289
Our wings are not tired.
So I remain confused, would any injury to DX resulting from said tongue waggling be considered a tort or not?
Wolfram - May 06, 2003 3:56:40 pm PDT #1233 of 10289
Visilurking
So I remain confused, would any injury to DX resulting from said tongue waggling be considered a tort or not?
If DX wanted to institute a tort action on a negligence theory he'd have to prove that the injury was proximately caused by the tongue waggler, that injury through tongue waggling is foreseeable, that a reasonable person would not have engaged in the dangerous activity of tongue waggling, and that the tongue waggler owed a duty of care to him that was breached. In jurisdictions which impose strict liability on tongue wagglers for the injuries caused - because the activity is inherently dangerous - all DX would have to prove was that his injury was proximately caused by the waggling.