From: Tony B. Csoka (csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 21 1997 - 18:21:58 MDT
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>What *do* I believe in? Torts. I don't see why there should be any
>real distinction between what happens if you break a contract, break
>a piece of my personal property, or break my leg -- I should sue you
>for damages, and get restitution. This is essentially a return to the
>early legal systems much of Europe had, before kings discovered that
>declaring certain offenses to be violations of the *KING'S* peace and
>not torts was a way to earn a buck by collecting the fines for the
>crown instead of for the victim.
Yeah, but at the present time it's difficult to sue someone when you're
dead.
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Tony B. Csoka
Department of Pathology
HSW-547
School of Medicine
University of California
San Francisco
CA 94143-0506
Tel: (415) 476 2745
Fax: (415) 476 9672
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