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  2. United States tort law - Wikipedia

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    An incident would not have happened if there was not a breach. Breach can be shown in most jurisdictions if a defendant violates a statute that pertains to safety and the purpose of which is to prevent the result of the case. Note that this is an alternative way to show breach. A violation of statute will not have occurred in every case.

  3. Perjury - Wikipedia

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    Punishment for perjury is defined under Section 109 of the Crimes Act 1961. [20] A person who commits perjury may be imprisoned for up to 7 years. If a person commits perjury to procure the conviction of someone charged with an offence that carries a maximum sentence of not less than 3 years' imprisonment, the perjurer may be imprisoned for up ...

  4. Tort - Wikipedia

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    A tort is a civil wrong, other than breach of contract, that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. [1] Tort law can be contrasted with criminal law, which deals with criminal wrongs that are punishable by the state. While criminal law aims to punish individuals who ...

  5. US Supreme Court rejects appeal by banker tied to Trump ex ...

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    It also said corruption does not require an intentional breach by Calk of a legal duty to his bank. Manafort, a veteran Republican operative, was convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud in 2018 ...

  6. Tortious interference - Wikipedia

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    Inducing a breach of contract was a tort of accessory liability, and an intention to cause a breach of contract was a necessary and sufficient requirement for liability; a person had to know that he was inducing a breach of contract and to intend to do so; that a conscious decision not to inquire into the existence of a fact could be treated as ...

  7. Legal malpractice - Wikipedia

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    Under U.S. law, in order to rise to an actionable level of negligence (an actual breach of a legal duty of care), the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonably prudent attorney would make. While the elements of a cause of action for ...

  8. Omission (law) - Wikipedia

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    In the criminal law, an omission will constitute an actus reus and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty to act and the defendant is in breach of that duty. In tort law , similarly, liability will be imposed for an omission only exceptionally, when it can be established that the defendant was under a duty to act or duty of care .

  9. Co-defendant of Young Thug stabbed in jail while awaiting ...

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    One of two remaining co-defendants in Georgia's longest-running criminal trial was stabbed in jail, his lawyer said Monday morning, as jurors resumed deliberations in the sprawling racketeering ...