Battery

Question 1

battery

Answer 1

The defendant’s acts are the (1) intended to inflict of (2) harmful or offensive (3) bodily contact.

Question 2

intent for battery

Answer 2

Battery requires that the defendant must intend to make contact or a. Actual harm is not a requirement.

Question 3

single intent

Answer 3

intent to make contact

Question 3

dual intent

Answer 3

intent to make harmful or offensive contact

Question 4

apprehension of contact [battery]

Answer 4

The plaintiff need not have actual awareness of the contact at the time it occurs If the defendant does not intend actual contact, but only apprehension of contact, he is still liable when contact results

Question 5

harmful or offensive contact [battery]

Answer 5

Battery requires that the contact be reasonably harmful or offensive to a person of ordinary sensibilities.

Question 6

harmful v. offensive pain [battery]

Answer 6

harmful causes pain or bodily injury. offensive is a personal sense of dignity

Question 7

knowledge [battery]

Answer 7

however, if defedant knows that the victim is particularly sensitive to a specific type of contact, he will be liable for the resulting harm

Question 8

contact [battery]

Answer 8

battery requires that actual bodily contact with the plaintiff occurs. contact goes beyond the consented to contact

Question 9

personal effects [battery]

Answer 9

contact extends from the person to any object with which he is ‘intimately connected]

Question 10

defenses [battery]

Answer 10

self-defense, defense of others, defense of property, retaking of land, recapture of chattels, necessity, discipline, shopkeeper’s privilege, legal authority, and in some jurisdictions, consent