Civil wrong
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". A civil wrong or wrong is a cause of action under civil law. Types include tort, breach of contract and breach of trust.[1]
Something that amounts to a civil wrong is wrongful. A wrong involves the violation of a right because wrong and right are contrasting terms.[2] An 1860 legal ruling stated that: "It is essential to an action in tort that the act complained of should under the circumstances be legally wrongful as regards the party complaining; that is, it must prejudicially affect him in some legal right".[3]
The law that relates to civil wrongs is part of the branch of the law that is called the civil law.[4] A civil wrong can be followed by civil proceedings.[5] It is a misnomer to describe a civil wrong as a "civil offence".[6] The law of England recognised the concept of a wrong before it recognised the distinction between civil wrongs and crimes in the 13th century.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ Rogers v Rajendro Dutt (1860) 13 Moo P C 209, 9 WR 149, 15 ER 78, quoted in House of Lords, Watkins (Respondent) v. Home Office (Appellants) and others, [2006] UKHL 17.
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Further reading
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Clerk, J. F. (1989). Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (16 ed.). Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 9780421377608.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Phillips, O. Hood (1960). A First Book of English Law (4 ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Williams, Glanville (1982). Learning the Law (11 ed.). London: Stevens. ISBN 9780420463005.
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