Obligatory Duty

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When people live in society, it will be generally expected from every one the society to respect the privacy of all other rightful thinking members of the society. Whatever every other person does or says would be regulated by the societal rules to the extent that, the action of any member of the society will not unreasonably interfere, injure or harm any other member of the society.

Everyone in a society will be expected or required to act in a certain orderly manner towards every other person so as to maintain peace within and among people living in the community. These expectations may be viewed as obligatory duty, flowing from each individual member of the community to all other people in the community. If anyone fails to observe or respect …show more content…

In the first place, there must exist a duty. It is essential to identify that the defendant in a tort case owes a duty to the plaintiff; secondly, there must be a proof that, the duty has been breached; thirdly it has to be proved that the breach of the duty is the cause of the tortious act and fourthly, that the plaintiff must have suffer some degree of harm, injury of interference as a result of the action of the defendant. It is when all these four elements have been established, only then, that the action in tort can be successful. However, in the case of trespass that is actionable per se, this means no proof of harm is required to succeed in trespass action.

The debate on the question, as to whether “the law of tort consist of a fundamental general principle that, it is wrongful to cause harm to other persons in the absence of some specific ground of justification or excuse, or it does consist of a number of specific rules prohibiting certain kinds of harmful activity, and leaving all the residue outside the sphere of legal responsibility” has been examined by authorities like Goodhart, and

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