Vicarious liability

liability that is assigned or accepted on behalf of another person

This article is about vicarious liability in private litigation; for vicarious liability in criminal law, see Vicarious liability (criminal). Vicarious liability is a form of strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency – respondeat superior – the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate, or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that had the "right, ability or duty to control" the activities of a violator. It can be distinguished from contributory liability, another form of secondary liability, which is rooted in the tort theory of enterprise liability.
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When a person is held responsible for the tort of another even though the person being held responsible may not have done anything wrong. - (read more on Vicarious liability)