
David Friedman - What Does Law Have To Do With Economics?
The Curious Task
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The Differences Between Criminal and Tort Law
In our system, the two systems have different rules in a bunch of different ways that in theory, intent is required for crime, but not for tort. In theory, the standard of evidence is very high for criminal law, is much lower for tort law. And so there are lots of lots of differences. It it i and there's a sense in which i've argued that the legal system if saga, perid iceland, a thousand years ago, was a system where, in effect, if someof you killed somebody, as relatives,. sud you. But under strict islamic law, which souty arabia doesn't have, but they're closer than most
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