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	Notes:	A. TORTS: Wrongful or unreasonable acts (or omissions) that cause harm to another person in some way; whether physical or financial.\q INTENTIONAL vs. UNINTENTIONAL TORTS:\qUnintentional Torts include negligence and strict liability\qDistinguishing Characteristics: wrongs against individuals; no prior relationship necessary; most times no prior relationship.\qFACTS: Contracts can establish prior agreements. Tort law regulates and governs how we can act upon each other and the consequences of acting upon each other.\qTorts answers the question: Who bears the burden of the losses associated with the action/actor? i.e. There is a car accident and Frost hits Hammontree who looses $5,000. Who pays?\qOption # 1 Actor/Wrongdoer Pays - Have Frost pay.\qOption # 2 Victim Pays - If Frost is not negligent, then Hammontree pays.\qOption # 3 Remote Actor - Manufacturer of Frost’s car pays.\qOption # 4 Social Security - Government pays.\qMAIN QUESTION: How will losses be allocated? It could be a closed system, i.e. private law system - losses remain where and with whom they fall; or alternatively it could be a social insurance system - where everyone is compensated all the time. No liability is an untenable option because it conflicts with the interest of injury prevention and fairness.  A social insurance system is too expensive.  Thus Tort Law is the choice to help us fashion a system of determining allocation of losses in cases of unintentional harm.\q\qB.  TWO CATEGORIES OF UNINTENTIONAL TORTS: NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY (ultrahazardous products)\qHow court doctrinally places case will determine how we think about the case.\q1. Fundamental issue in torts is whether to put a case in the Negligence box or the Strict Liability box.\q2. As to this issue, there have been big shifts historically as seen in HAMMONTREE and BIERMAN.\qMAIN GOALS OF TORT LAW:\q1. Compensation for harm/injury\q2. Preventing future harms of greater numbers and/or severity.\q3. Redistribution\q4. Dislocation\q5. Administrative Costs