A tort is a civil wrong that results when one person violates the legal rights of another. It can be done on purpose, as in case battery, or accidentally by acting negligently mistake, without intending to conduct such an act. In some torts, idea mental element may not significant since, order make determination, we must first understand type committed. collection

To find a person not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas, it must be shown that at the time of the crime the person did not know the difference between right and wrong. This standard, applied in many other states, is a crude measure for something that cries out for subtlety. It is the reason that Andrea Yates was recently found guilty of murder, even though she was clearly, and by all account...

Abstract Act consequentialism states that an act is right if and only the expected value of its outcome at least as great any other act’s outcome. Two objections to this view are follows. The first cannot account for our normative ambivalence in cases where agents perform out bad motives. second silent on questions character: like ‘What motives have?’ kind person ought I be?’. These have been t...