A PROPOSED NEW DEFINITION OF A TORT.

This article discusses various issues related to a proposed new definition of torts in the U.S. Although acts such as torts have been committed since the dawn of the idea of the existence of rights as between man and man, yet the development of anything like a clearly formulated conception of a tort is surprisingly recent. In seeking to establish the definition of a tort, the article author proposes to look, not to any relation of the injured party, but to the relation of the party committing the injury. The author states tort as an act or omission, not a mere breach of contract, and producing injury to another, in the absence of any existing lawful relation of which such act or omission is a natural outgrowth or incident.