Write briefly that the judgment against one tort-feasor is no bar for action against others.

Under the Common Law, a judgment against one tort-feasor was a bar against further action against others. But the law reform (Married Women and Tort-feasors) Act, 1935 has now abolished the above rule.  The law is now that a judgment recovered against one tort-feasor, if unsatisfied does not bar a subsequent action against any other tort-feasor irrespective of whether he was a joint tort-feasor or one of the several tort-feasor causing the same or indivisible damage.


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