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[I]n a still-developing area of law in Ontario dealing with privacy torts, [revenge porn] may also trigger a monetary damages award in the context of a civil claim. In tort law, it falls within a category of privacy torts referred to as publication (or public disclosure) of private facts.

[T]he common law dealt with dog bites/attacks on the basis of scienter (knowledge) or negligence . . . Ontario modified all of this with the introduction of the Dog Owners’ Liability Act.

An incorporated company is one of the most common ways of conducting a business. The corporation is a separate person in the eyes of the law – it’s a separate legal entity. It’s “separate” because it’s a separate legal entity from the people who own the corporation (who are called shareholders). It’s a “person” because it has the capacity, rights, powers, and privileges of a natural person.

The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest defines a contract as: “an agreement free from vitiating factors such as mistake or misrepresentation, and constituted by the unconditional acceptance of an outstanding offer involving a reasonably precise and complete set of terms between two or more contractually competent parties, who intend to create mutual and reciprocal rights and duties that may be the subject of judicial sanction, if they are expressed in any required form, and are free from the taint of illegality or immorality, and are not subsequently discharged by law, by agreement, by breach, or by sufficient supervening circumstances.”