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
50 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.
51 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
