English tort law

In the law of England and Wales Tort law refers to a field of law that (unlike the criminal law ) deals with the civil consequences of torts. The word tort goes back to the past participle of the Latin verb passive torquere and received via the French way into the English legal language. Liability according to the model of continental European civil law (as opposed to common law), but also of the Scottish law, in contrast, delict or tort called. English law is alien to a general clause for civil liability. Rather, there are a large number of individual facts, from which liability arises because of tort, such as negligence, nuisance, defamation or trespass.