Abstract
This chapter elucidates the immanence of corrective justice in negligence liability. It examines each of the negligence concepts (reasonable care, the duty of care, proximate cause, factual cause, and the contrast of misfeasance and nonfeasance) and shows how these constitute a unified ensemble that treats the progression from the defendant's action to the plaintiff's injury as a single normative sequence. Central to this linkage of plaintiff and defendant is the idea of risk, because (as the Palsgraf case stated) ‘risk imports relation’. Each of the concepts traces an actual or potential connection between doing and suffering, and together they translate into juridical terms the movement of effects from doer to sufferer.
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