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Pure economic loss from a comparative perspective

Abstract

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English law originally did not provide an action in cases where pure economic loss was caused negligently. From the Middle Ages (i.e. from more or less the 13th century), when there arose a remedy called 'trespass', which was applicable only in cases of direct forcible injury,

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Centre for Law and Society
Year dc:date.issued
1994

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Von Frentz,WFR
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  • Visser, Daniel

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38805
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/38805

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Von Frentz,WFR. Pure economic loss from a comparative perspective. Centre for Law and Society, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38805