The purpose of criminal law is to punish while the purpose of tort law is to compensate the victimtrue/false

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11 March, 01:14

The purpose of criminal law is to punish while the purpose of tort law is to compensate the victimtrue/false

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Fabian Sloan · Answer 1

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The main objectives of the civil liability law or tort law is to provide relief to injured parties for damages caused by others, to impose liability on the parties responsible for the damage and to deter others from committing harmful acts. The grievances may transfer the burden of loss of the injured party to the guilty or most appropriate party to bear the burden of the loss. Generally, a party seeking reparation through the civil liability law will request damages in the form of monetary compensation. Less common remedies include precautionary measures and restitution.

The limits of the civil liability law or tort law are defined by customary law and state statutory law. The judges, when interpreting the language of the statutes, have ample freedom to determine which actions qualify as legally recognizable errors, which defenses can nullify any given claim and the appropriate measure of damages. Although the law of grievances varies by state, many courts use the Restatement of grievances (2nd) as an influential guide.

The grievances fall into three general categories: intentional damages (for example, intentionally hitting a person); negligent grievances (for example, causing an accident by not obeying traffic rules); and strict civil liability (for example, responsibility for manufacturing and selling defective products; see Product liability). Intentional grievances are errors that the defendant knew or should have known would result from his actions or omissions. Negligent grievances occur when the defendant's actions were unreasonably unsafe. Unlike intentional and negligent grievances, strict liability grievances do not depend on the degree of care the defendant used. On the contrary, in cases of strict liability, the courts focus on whether a particular result or manifest damage.

There are numerous specific grievances that include intrusion, aggression, aggression, neglect, product liability and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. There are also separate areas of civil liability law that include inconvenience, defamation, invasion of privacy and a category of economic damages.