Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each liability term to its meaning.
- Daño emergente
- Lucro cesante
- Vicarious liability
- Force majeure
- Unforeseeable event breaking causation
- The profit the victim failed to earn
- The loss actually suffered
- Employer answering for employees’ torts
Hints
- Separate the two heads of damage from the two doctrines.
- One doctrine transfers liability; another breaks the causal chain.
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- Daño emergente → The loss actually suffered
- Lucro cesante → The profit the victim failed to earn
- Vicarious liability → Employer answering for employees’ torts
- Force majeure → Unforeseeable event breaking causation
Why
Two heads of damage, one transferred liability, one causal escape hatch, the working vocabulary of any claim.
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