People who commit torts are responsible {liability, tort} for effects of wrongs. Liability includes intentional wrongs, negligent wrongs, and wrongs without fault.
States can make car owners liable for damages if drivers have owner consent. Heads of household can be liable for all family driving {family car doctrine}.
Actions can have foreseeable consequences, not directly intended {oblique intention}, which are people's responsibility.
Situations can have results that, by themselves {res ipsa loquitur} (things speak for themselves), infer or prove negligence, requiring no witnesses.
Liability can result if people did wrong for a purpose {intentional wrong}|.
Liability can result if people are not careful {negligent wrong}.
Liability can result if wrongs {wrong without fault} {liability without fault} happen on or with people's property. Wrongs without fault include damage caused by dangerous machines or objects, dangerous activities, and dangerous animals. If animal is not normally dangerous, liability results only if owner knew that it had become dangerous.
Liability without fault includes injuries to third parties caused by persons, to whom sellers sold intoxicants {Dram Shop laws}.
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