Legal Theory and Concepts
Intermediate
Immunity
A legal protection against another person's power to alter one's legal relations.
Why It Matters
Immunity helps analyze limits on private ordering, constitutional constraints, corporate charter protections, procedural protections, and statutory restrictions on regulators or counterparties.
Selected Literature
A short list of directly relevant archive entries.
1913
Introductory
Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
Yale Law Journal
1917
Introductory
Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
Yale Law Journal
Related Cases
1910
Foundations of Law and Economics
Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co.
109 Minn. 456, 124 N.W. 221 (1910)
Private necessity, compensation, and liability for intentional emergency use of another's property.
1928
Foundations of Law and Economics
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928)
Duty, foreseeability, and the legal boundary placed on liability for an extended chain of accidental harm.
1944
Foundations of Law and Economics
Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co.
24 Cal. 2d 453, 150 P.2d 436 (1944)
Proof of negligence and the allocation of product-accident risk between manufacturers and consumers.
1970
Foundations of Law and Economics
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
26 N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870 (1970)
Permanent damages, injunctions, and the choice between property-rule and liability-rule protection.