English Dictionary

alternative liability

名詞

(law) a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to shift the burden of proving causation of her injury to multiple defendants, even though only one of them could have been responsible

日本語の意味

（法律）複数の被告の中から、実際に原因をもたらした被告を特定する負担を原告に課さず、原因となり得るすべての被告に対して責任を追及できる法理。

The court applied alternative liability to assign responsibility when it could not determine which company caused the contamination.

裁判所は、どちらの会社が汚染を引き起こしたか特定できなかったため、因果関係の立証責任を複数の被告に転嫁するという代替責任の法理を適用して責任を割り当てた。

意味（1）

(law) a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to shift the burden of proving causation of her injury to multiple defendants, even though only one of them could have been responsible