Property | Tort

Waghorn, Alex ORCID: 0000-0001-8795-5413 (2024) Property | Tort. In: Day, William and Grower, Julius, (eds.) Borderlines in Private Law. Oxford University Press, 223–246. ISBN 9780198888710

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This chapter considers tortious remedies for interference with property rights. It discusses the famous American case of Edwards v Lee’s Administrator, where the defendant had been committing the tort of trespass in taking visitors into those parts of the cave to which the claimant had title. Two plausible responses were user damages and disgorgement of profits. User damages refer to a sum of money calculated at the amount which the claimant could reasonably have charged the defendant to permit him to act as he did. Meanwhile, disgorgement is available under statute where a defendant profits by infringing a claimant’s patent. The chapter considers concepts of property in justifying either approach.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2024 Oxford University Press
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2024 08:27
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 18:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123743

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