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The biggest difference is who brings the lawsuit, and the types of punishments.

In criminal law, prosecution is by the govt (state or federal). Punishments may be fines (paid to the govt) or jail.

In tort law, the plaintiff who brings the suit is the person who was directly injured -- and the punishment is usually payment of monetary damages to the person injured.

Another difference is that in most legal systems -- crimes are defined by statute, where as torts mostly exist based on past cases (precedent) that established them.This is most often in common law systems, like we have in the US and England.

2007-09-24 15:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0 1

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TORT A negligent or intentional civil wrong not arising out of a contract or statute. These include "intentional torts" such as battery or defamation, and torts for negligence. A tort is an act that injures someone in some way, and for which the injured person may sue the wrongdoer for damages. Legally, torts are called civil wrongs, as opposed to criminal ones. (Some acts like battery, however, may be both torts and crimes; the wrongdoer may face both civil and criminal penalties.) Contract A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties with mutual obligations. The remedy at law for breach of contract is "damages" or monetary compensation. In equity, the remedy can be specific performance of the contract or an injunction. Both remedies award the damaged party the "benefit of the bargain" or expectation damages, which are greater than mere reliance damages, as in promissory estoppel.

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2015-08-24 14:59:23 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0 0

Crime is a state/federal law punishable by jail time.

Tort is a civil wrong, such as breaking a contract. No jail time can be ordered for a tort. The judgement in a tort is normally monetary, or property.

2007-09-24 15:20:27 · answer #6 · answered by trooper3316 7 · 0 0

Tort is a legal term in common law jurisdictions that means a civil wrong, and can be a criminal wrong, that is recognized by law as grounds for a lawsuit. Its equivalent in civil law jurisdictions is delict. It is part of the law of obligations but unlike voluntarily assumed obligations on the parties created through a contract, the duties imposed under tort law are mandatory for all citizens in that jurisdiction. To behave 'tortiously' is to harm another's body, property, or legal rights, or to breach a duty owed under statutory law. One who commits a tortious act is called a "tortfeasor".

The dominant action in tort is negligence, which is used to protect people's bodies and property, including non tangible economic interests. There are certain torts that specially protect land, such as nuisance, which is strict liability for neighbors who interfere with another's enjoyment of their property. Trespass allows owners to sue for intentional incursions by people on their land. There is a tort for false imprisonment, and a tort for defamation, where someone makes an unsupportable allegation represented to be factual which damages the reputation of another. There are statutory, creating product liability and sanctions against anti-competitive companies. The foundation of labor law in the modern welfare state also begins with tort, as a means to mitigate conflicting relations between unions and employers. And now the scope of tort law's application spreads every day. As Lord MacMillan said, in tort's most famous case, "the categories of negligence are never closed".

Criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of the various bodies of rules in different jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential for unique and often severe impositions as punishment for failure to comply. Criminal punishment, depending on the offense and jurisdiction, may include execution, loss of liberty, government supervision (parole or probation), or fines. There are some archetypal crimes, like murder, but the acts that are forbidden are not wholly consistent between different criminal codes, and even within a particular code lines may be blurred as civil infractions may give rise also to criminal consequences. Criminal law typically is enforced by the government, unlike the civil law, which may be enforced by private parties.

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