Moral harm and conditions of its compensation in the anglo-american law

Abstract

The article is devoted to a research of category of moral harm in the Anglo-American law and conditions of its compensation. The attention is focused that in the Anglo-American law moral harm is understood as economically immeasurable harm, that is the harm done to the non-monetary interests (the non-material benefits and the non-property rights) of other person. Moral harm is legal harm and is always connected with offense. It is caused by various nominated torts, at the same time one nominated tort is capable to cause different types of moral harm. In the Anglo-American law realization of a possibility of compensation of moral harm, except existence of the general signs of tort, requires also existence of additional conditions as each nominated tort demands existence of certain special conditions which lack makes impossible application of appropriate means of legal protection.