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are still important today. This knowledge will make you appreciate where one 
Tort begins and ends. Each Tort has specific ingredient which must be known in 

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advance. Some understanding of the 
Old Forms of Action
 is still very important 
today. To one who is wholly ignorant of the old Forms of Action many of the 
older authorities on Tort will appear unintelligible and misleading. 
 
READ: FREDERICK POLLOCK, Law of Torts, 1st Edition, pages 21-23; 13th 
Edition, pages 1-2, 6, 20-23; (1902) 22 Law Quarterly Review; (1910) 26 Law 
Quarterly Review 421; (1927) 43 Law Quarterly Review 149; (1931) 47 Law 
Quarterly Review 589. 
 

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3. Foundations of Tortious Liability
 
You will later observe that some cases, texts and journals you will frequently 
refer bear the title: LAW OF TORT. Many others are titled LAW OF TORTS. The 
two approaches to the definition and understanding of the Law of Tort 
symbolises a raging debate whether Tortious Liability: 
 
is: 
 
LAW OF TORT 
 
or 
 
LAW OF 
TORTS? 
 
 
Salmond posed the question whether the Law of Torts: 
 
consist of a fundamental general 
principle that it is wrongful to cause 
harm to other persons in the absence 
of some specific ground of justification 

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or excuse
,