Description
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In order to contribute to a better understanding of natural causation, which is a central concept in civil law, the present book offers a large collection of leading cases from 25 European countries and from the Court of Justice of the European Community. Each case is shortly summarised and commented on. Further, an important number of cases collected are resolved according to the recently published 'Principles of European Tort Law'.
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From the contents:
Conditio sine qua non in General.- Damage Caused by Omission.- Preventive Expenses Incurred Before the Damaging Event.- Damage Caused by Psychological Influence.- Damage Caused by Multiple Tortfeasors.- Damage Caused by Less Than All Possibly Harmful Events: Damage Caused by Less Than All Possibly Harmful Events Outside the Victim s Sphere; Damage Caused by Less Than All Possibly Harmful Events, Including Events or Hazard Within the Victim s Sphere; Damage Caused to Less Than All Victims by a Harmful Event; Damage Caused to Less Than All Victims by One or More Possibly Harmful Events.- Damage Caused by Several Simultaneous, but Independent Events.- Damage Caused by Several Successive, but Independent Events.- Minimal Causation.- Loss of a Chance.- "Haftungsbegründende und haftungsausfüllende Kausalität".
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Prof. Dr. Bénédict Winiger, University Geneva; Prof. Dr. Helmut Koziol, European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law; Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Koch, Institut für Zivilrecht, Universität Austria; Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisch
