Duties to Occupants

Let's talk about one particular situation in which the general duty might give way to more specific standards in certain discrete, factual contexts. Namely, we're doing a brief survey here of the duties of owners and possessors of land to occupants of their property.

Typically, jurisdictions in the United States take one of two approaches when it comes to defining the scope of a landowner's duty to those who occupy the property. The first approach, which has been the...