CONCISE RESTATEMENTS

The Concise Restatements, beginning with A Concise Restatement of Torts, are compilations of provisions from existing Restatements thought to be most useful to law students. Experienced law professors assemble in a compact, convenient, and readily accessible format those portions of these Restatements that teachers of the relevant subjects regard as especially pertinent and helpful to an introductory study of these subjects.

A Concise Restatement of Torts is a compilation by Professor Kenneth S. Abraham of the University of Virginia, of provisions from both The American Law Institute’s (ALI’s) Restatements of Torts Second and Torts Third. Most of this compilation necessarily derives from Torts Second, but it also draws upon the ALI’s Restatement Third reformulations of products liability and apportionment of liability.

While assembly of a manageable study aid entailed the cutting of many relevant sections, as well as the omission or paring of commentary to many sections whose black-letter provisions have been included, the material ultimately retained has not been rewritten or changed in substance; its language is precisely that which has been relied upon (and quoted extensively) by the courts throughout the past several decades of tort-law development. To facilitate additional research, cross-references to sections that are not included in this volume, as well as to those that are, have been retained.