A system which enables a person who has suffered harm or injury by the acts of another, to claim damages in the civil suit.
The essential nature of the law of torts is that it is not codified like other statute laws.
Some definitions of Tort
- Salmond: “It is a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common law action for liquidated damages and which is not exclusively the breach of a trust or other merely equitable obligation”.
- Faser: “It is an infringement of right in rem of a private individual giving a right of compensation at the suit of the injured party”.
- Pollock: “It is an act or omission which is related to harm suffered by as determined person”.
- Winfield: “Tortious liability arises form the breach of a duty primarily fixed by the law: this duty is towards persons generally the person is redressible by the an action for unliquidated damages”.
The law of torts exists for the purpose of preventing men from hurting one another, whether in respect of their property, their persons, their reputation or anything else which is theirs.
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