Liability, Immunity and Nuisance Doctrines

establishes three age brackets for determining a young person's capacity to be responsible for torts and crimes

In civil law jurisdictions, abuse of rights (also known as Prohibition of Chicane) is the exercise of a legal right only to cause annoyance, harm, or injury to another.

The attractive nuisance doctrine applies to the law of torts in some jurisdictions.

A continuing trespass is: a wrongful act involving a course of action which is a direct invasion of the rights of another. a trespass in the taking of goods, although without intent to appropriate them, followed by an appropriation, the original trespass being deemed to continue to the time of the appropriation, so that the subsequent appropriation is larceny.

Delict (from Latin dēlictum, past participle of dēlinquere ‘to be at fault, offend’) is a term in civil and mixed law jurisdictions whose exact meaning varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but is always centered on the notion of wrongful conduct.

Ignis suus (his fire; Latin), sometimes ignus suus, is a common law principle relating to an occupier's liability over damage caused by the spread of fire.

Intrusion on seclusion is one of the four privacy torts created under U.S. common law.

Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be: severally liable, or jointly liable, or jointly and severally liable.

Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States law that grants government officials-in the performance of their duties-immunity from prosecution or lawsuits unless the prosecutor or plaintiff shows that the official violated civil or constitutional rights, or acted outside of their scope of authority.

Vicarious liability is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, respondeat superior, the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that had the "right, ability, or duty to control" the activities of a violator.