The law of torts

Law of torts volume 2 contents: Ch. V - Defamation. §5.0: Common law overview and constitutional overlay. §5.1: The interests protected: what constitutes defamation. §5.2: Other applications of the principle. §5.3: Who can be defamed; deceased persons, corporations, partnerships, associations. §5.4: Meaning of language or other media of communications. §5.5: Extrinsic facts unknown to defendant: accidental defamation. §5.6: Context. §5.7: Applicability of defamatory imputations to plaintiff. §5.8: Types of defamatory communication: fact and opinion. §5.9: Forms of defamatory communication: libel and slander. §5.9A: The spurious rule of "libel per quod". §5.10: Slanderous imputations of crime. §5.11: Slanderous imputations of disease. §5.12: Slanderous imputation, tendency to injure one in one's business, trade, profession, or office. §5.13: Slanderous imputations of unchastity. §5.14: Special damage. §5.15: Publication. §5.16: The single publication rule. §5.17: Plaintiff's consent to publication; provocation. §5.18: Republication of defamation originated by a third person: newspapers, broadcasters, telegraph companies, etc. §5.19: Retraction statutes. §5.20: Truth as a defense. §5.21: Policy underlying defense of privilege. §5.22: Absolute privilege: judicial proceedings. §5.23: Legislative, administrative, and executive proceedings. §5.24: Publication of reports of public proceedings and meetings. §5.25: Policy factors involved in conditional privilege. §5.26: Occasions privileged for the protection of the interests of the publisher, the recipient, a third person, or the public. §5.27: Proper use and abuse of privileged occasions; malice. §5.28: Fair comment. §5.29: Functions of judge and jury. §5.30: Damages for defamation. Ch. VI - Business torts. Topic A. Disparagement. §6.1: Disparagement of title and quality of property. §6.1A: Malice, intent, and knowledge: the element of fault in disparagement. §6.2: Privilege of rival claimants and competitors. §6.3: Other privileges. §6.4: Economic interests invaded by nondefamatory, nondisparaging misrepresentations to third persons. Topic B. Interference with contractual relations. §6.5: Type of interests protected. §6.6: Intentional interference. §6.7: Application of the principle. §6.8: Manner of interference. §6.9: Interference with performance otherwise than inducing breach. §6.10: Negligent interference. Topic C. Interference with reasonable economic expectancies. §6.11: Precontractual interferences. Topic D. Privilege to interfere with contractual relations and expectancies. §6.12: The principle of privilege or "justification" applied to business torts. §6.13: Trade competition and industrial disputes. Ch. VII - Misrepresentation and nondisclosure. §7.1: Deceit as a separate tort. §7.2: Scope of liability in deceit. §7.3: Scienter. §7.4: Deceit, negligence, and liability without fault. §7.5: Liability based on scienter. §7.6: Liability for negligent misrepresentations. §7.7: Liability for innocent misrepresentations. §7.8: Justifiable reliance: "fact" and "opinion" - statements of law. §7.9: Justifiable reliance: materiality. §7.10: Justifiable reliance: statements concerning the future - predictions, promises, statements of intention. §7.11: Justifiable reliance: statements of value or quality. §7.12: Duty to inspect. §7.13: Causal relation - reliance. §7.14: Concealment and nondisclosure. §7.15: Remedies for misrepresentation. Ch. VIII - Tort liability as affected by family relationships. Topic A. Torts to family relations. §8.1: The interests protected. §8.2: Interference with the betrothal relationship. §8.3: Alienation of affections of spouse and criminal conversion. §8.4: Privileged alienation: parents, relatives; strangers. §8.5: Alienation of affection of children and parents. §8.6: Seduction or abduction of minor child; unprivileged deprivation of custody. §8.7: "Heart-balm" legislation. §8.8: Loss of child's or parent's services or companionship. §8.9: Loss of spouse's consortium. Topic B. Torts in the family. §8.10: Tort liability between spouses. §8.11: Tort liability between parents and children. Topic C. Torts by members of the family. §8.12: Liability for torts of spouses. §8.13: Liability for torts of children. Ch. IX - Intentionally inflicted emotional disturbances: emotional distress and invasion of privacy. §9.1: Introduction. §9.2: Abusive language generally. §9.3: Public utilities and public callings. §9.4: Deceased relatives. §9.5: Gradual recognition of interests in privacy. §9.6: Extent of the right of privacy. §9.7: Defenses to invasion of privacy. Includes summary of contents and table of contents.