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    <namePart type="date">1940-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Carolina Academic Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>©1999</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1999</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>lxviii, 1044 pages illustrations 26 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>An overview of modern tort liability: intentional injury, failure to exercise care, and strict liability -- Basic intentional torts -- Defenses and privileges -- Damages -- Negligence: basic principles -- Proving negligence -- Factual causation -- Proximate causation -- Limited duty: failure to act -- Limited duty: negligent infliction of severe emotional distress -- Limited duty: alcohol-related injuries -- Torts involving conception, pregnancy, birth, and adoption -- Strict liability -- Products liability -- Defenses based on plaintiff's conduct -- Joint tortfeasors -- Immunities -- Statutes of limitation -- Interference with possession or use of land: trespass and nuisance -- Misrepresentation -- Defamation -- Invasion of privacy.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Vincent R. Johnson and Alan Gunn.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages xlix-lxii) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Torts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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