Tort law broadly speaking addresses any civil legal action between individual parties growing from unlawful acts which come to a break of general responsibilities brought down by law and not by agreement.

Civil wrong law addresses the whole possible spectrum of damages which humans can bring down abreast of one another, and naturally, partly convergences with legal injuries as well punishable by felonious law. Although the United States of America Law Institute has assayed to standardise civil wrong law through the developing of many adaptations of the Restatement of Torts, a lot of states have decided to adopt exclusively certain divisions of the Restatements and to disapprove others. Therefore, because of its large size and variety, United States civil wrong law can't be easily resumed.

For instance, some jurisdictions permit legal actions for inattentive infliction of emotional suffering even in the absence of touchable trauma to the complainant, but most don't. For any specific civil wrong, states disagree on the reasons of action, characters and scope of remediations, legislative acts of restrictions, and the amount of specificity with which one must plead the cause. With practically any facet of civil wrong law, there is a "absolute majority rule" stuck by to by nearly all the states, and one or more "minority rules."