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- Title
THE ADMINISTRATION OF A TORT LIABILITY LAW IN NEW YORK.
- Authors
MACDONALD, JOHN W.
- Abstract
The article offers information on New York's administration of liability law in cases of torts. It is said that a development of sovereign honesty has been demonstrated by the history of state liability in tort in New York. State liability in New York had modest origins, with the Legislature passing a statute in 1829 providing that the board of canal appraisers should have jurisdiction to estimate and appraise the damages sustained by any person by reason of the breaking away of an embankment on any part of the canals in New York. An act to provide for the appraisal of canal claims against the State was passed by the legislature in 1870.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); TORTS; LEGAL liability; OBLIGATIONS (Law); LEGAL claims; DAMAGES (Law); LEGISLATIVE bills; CANALS; EMBANKMENTS
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1942, Vol 9, Issue 2, p262
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1189501