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duty to rescue: a standalone construct

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Tort law

the question whether a bystander should owe a legal duty to aid a person in peril when rescue is easy, set against the common-law no-duty rule.

In tort law, duty to rescue refers to the question whether a bystander should owe a legal duty to aid a person in peril when rescue is easy, set against the common-law no-duty rule. This meaning comes from Weinrib (1980) in The Yale Law Journal.[1]

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duty4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs person3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs tort1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · one construct, one field

References

Weinrib, E. J. (1980). The Case for a Duty to Rescue. The Yale Law Journal, 90(2), 247. https://doi.org/10.2307/795987

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