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Held Liable Reasonable Care
1,001 wordsHarm is easily defined when it is intentional; after all, no one would push you down the steps or purposely cause you to wreck your car. Negligence is an area of tort law that involves unintentional acts that can cause harm and is just as easily identified. The boundaries governing liabilities for negligence, however, are much narrower than that of intentional torts. The difference is that the respondent in a negligent action is performing a task, which is considered perfectly acceptable in ever...
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Ny Random House Adventure Travel
2,124 words... payable) which would in the future be have to repaid regardless of the corporate status. The repayment issue will be discussed further in the essay. By purchasing a company the buyer acquires not just a collection of assets and liabilities which is what would happen if a business was purchased but a legal entity or 'person' with attaching rights and liabilities. The main question that faces a buyer, then is whether to buy the shares of the target or the assets instead (and therefore assume c...
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Criminal Activity Third Party
2,259 wordsRe: Fitzhugh v. Fairview Gardens Partners Cause of action in negligence against the owner for injury to a tenant of an apartment complex resulting from third party criminal activity. Question Presented Under Oklahoma state law, does a tenant of an apartment complex in a high crime area have a cause of action in negligence against the owner of the complex for injuries suffered from third party criminal activity when, the owner fails to repair inoperative lights near a common passageway, fails to ...
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Child Abuse Prevention First Degree Murder
2,480 wordsChild Abuse Laws David A. delpezzso ABSTRACT Child abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out o...
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Child Abuse Prevention First Degree Murder
2,456 wordsChild abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out of three girls, and one out of seven boys are ...
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First Aid Injured Person
1,670 wordsFirst aid is the initial care given to a sick or injured person before more formal medical assistance is applied. The goal of first aid is to intervene actively to prevent further damage, to provide life support, and to begin effective treatment of the victims condition, to minimize injury and prevent death. Although first aid is not a substitute for medical care, those trained in first aid are able to assess the nature and the extent of an emergency and determine the best course of action to ta...
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Criminal Acts Parking Lots
3,243 words(LANDOWNERS Premises Liability PREMISES LIABILITY (LANDOWNERS AND OCCUPIERS) I. Premises Liability Responsibility of Landlords and Tenants. Under the common law, a landlord was not liable for injuries sustained by third persons while on leased premises. Court decisions and statutes have since overridden this no-liability rule. Landlords owe a duty of reasonable care to tenants and third parties not to negligently cause them injury. This duty is based on the foreseeability standard of ordinary ne...
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