List of legal doctrines
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The following is a list of legal concepts and principles, most of which apply under common law jurisdictions.
- Attractive nuisance
- Business purpose
- Calculus of negligence
- Caveat venditor
- Caveat emptor
- Continuing tort
- Contra proferentem
- Duty of care
- Economic loss
- Eggshell skull
- Emergency
- Fair use
- First-sale
- Fruit of the poisonous tree
- Good-faith exception
- Ignorantia juris non excusat
- Implied powers
- Implied terms of a contract
- Laches
- Living tree doctrine
- Loss of chance
- Non-delegable duty
- Odious debt
- Plain view doctrine
- Proximate cause
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Sovereign immunity
- Springboard
- Standard of care
- Stare decisis or Precedence rule
- Substance over form
- Unclean hands
- Vicarious liability
- Doctrine of Tenure
- Doctrine of Terra Nullius
- Acquisition of Land