Law Of Torts - Study Mode

[#216] Who defined defamation as "publication of a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally, or which tends to make them shun or avoid that person".
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(A) Winfield

[#217] What is the meaning of the expression 'felonious tort'?
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(D) A wrong which is both a crime as well as a tort

[#218] Innuendo means:
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(A) An innocent looking statement which has a hidden defamatory meaning

[#219] X, while travelling as a passenger in a railway, was injured on account of the negligence of the railway. An action could be taken
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(B) Only for the tort of negligence

[#220] "Tort is a civil wrong for which the remedy is common law action for unliquidated damages and which is not exclusively the breach of trust or other mere equitable obligation." Who has given the above definition of tort?
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(D) Salmond