Excerpt from The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the English Law of Liability for Civil Injuries
For the present edition this work has been revised throughout, and I have made such additions and alterations as further consideration and the judicial decisions of the last three years have shown to be necessary. The most important of these additions and alterations are the following. The law of co-owners is now dealt with for the first time, both in respect of their rights of action against strangers (§ 25A) and in respect of their rights and remedies inter se (pp. 169 and 323). The question as to the possibility of successive actions for the same tort when that tort is actionable only on proof of actual damage is discussed in a somewhat lengthy note (p. 120). Similar treatment has been given to the difficult question as to the incidence of liability for the wrongful withdrawal of support to land in cases where the ownership or occupation of the supporting land has changed before the resulting subsidence takes place (p. 250). I have partially rewritten the section dealing with the rule laid down in Earl v. Lubbock, as to the liability of him who in breach of his contract with one person delivers a dangerous chattel which does harm to another person (pp. 373-378). The decision of the Court of Appeal in the unsatisfactory case of Baker v. Snell has given occasion for a more thorough consideration of the rule of absolute liability for mischief done by animals (§ 126A). In view of recent decisions such as Hunt v. The Star Newspaper Company I have also dealt more fully with the difficulties of the law as to fair comment (§ 144)
These and other changes have necessitated a slight increase in the size of the book, but I have purposely preserved its original character as a compendium of legal principles rather than a digest of judicial decisions.
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