Philosophy of private law / William Lucy.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Damages.

Civil law.

Civil law -- Philosophy.

Jurisprudence.

Liability (Law)

1. Introduction

2. Legal liability - responsibility

3. Responsibility I: basic responsibility

4. Responsibility II: alternate possibilities

5. Conduct and causation

6. Wrongfulness

7. Normative foundations

8. Corrective justice

9. Distributive justice

10. Mixed foundations

11. Conclusion.

This book provides an outline of, and intervention in, contemporary jurisprudential debates about the nature and foundation of liability in private law.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780198700685

vi, 444 p. ; 22 cm