forest areas, which might be viewed as representing statutory compensation and regulation schemes and other parts of the common law". For more elaborate exposition see: KLAR, Lewis N., Tort Law, Thomson Professional Publishing Canada, 1991 at pages 2-10.
24 Legal Damage as an Essence of Tortious Liability We have earlier indicated that a "tort" is a legal construct and is not to be confused with a "wrong" in the general sense. It only exists where the law says it exists, i.e., where the law provides a remedy. Categories of "wrongs, injuries, and sufferings" which human beings inflict on one another are extremely many. Very few of these very many "wrongs, injuries and sufferings" come within the purview of the Law of Tort to be known as "TORTS". The function of students of law and indeed all the lawyers is to determine which injuries, wrongs and sufferings have remedies in the Law of Tort. Only the wrongs, injuries and sufferings which come within the protection of the Law of Tort will attract "Legal Damage", or Damage recognised by the Law. "A" will have committed no Tort as against "B" if he opens a huge supermarket resulting in loss of income to the shop owned by "B". In this scenario the act of "A" has given rise to no LEGAL DAMAGE recognised by the law. To constitute a Tort therefore , there must be: (a) a wrongful act or omission committed by another person; (b) the wrongful act/ omission must result in legal damage to another; and (c)
