Battery

Question 1

What Is Battery (Howsie’s definition is the 2nd restatement)

Answer 1

An act done with the intention to cause harmful or offensive contact, and harmful or offensive contact occurs.

Question 2

What are the elements of Battery?

Answer 2

Intent, The act must be intended with either single intent( the conduct was intentional) or dual intent ( the act was intentional and subjectively intended for the outcome)

Harmful or offensive contact

Proximal cause

Question 3

What is transferred intent

Answer 3

an act of battery or assault can be committed even if the person who filed the complaint was not the intended target of the action.

Question 4

What is extended liability?

Answer 4

The acter is liable for all damages caused, not just those that were reasonably expected.

Question 5

3rd restatement for offensive conduct

Answer 5

Contact is offensive if it offends a reasonable sense of personal dignity or if the actor knows that the conduct is highly offensive to the other’s usually sensitive sense of personal dignity.

Question 6

What is the 3rd restatment definition for intent

Answer 6

A person who acts with the “intent to produce a consequence” is defined as either (1) the person acts with the “purpose of producing that consequence” or (2) the person acts “knowing that the consequence is substantially certain to result.