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joint and several liability: a standalone construct

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Tort law

a rule letting a victim recover full damages from any one of several responsible defendants, who then sort out shares among themselves.

In tort law, joint and several liability refers to a rule letting a victim recover full damages from any one of several responsible defendants, who then sort out shares among themselves. This meaning comes from Kornhauser (1989) in The Yale Law Journal.[1]

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joint2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs liability2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs tort1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · one construct, one field

References

Kornhauser, L. A., & Revesz, R. L. (1989). Sharing Damages among Multiple Tortfeasors. The Yale Law Journal, 98(5), 831. https://doi.org/10.2307/796581

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