Chapter 6

Question 1

a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.
“public nuisance is a crime as well as a tort”

Answer 1

tort

Question 2

What’s the difference between damage and damages

Answer 2

Damage refers to harm or injury to persons or property, damages refers to monetary compensation for such harm or injury.

Question 3

Damages that reimburse for actual osses

Answer 3

compensatory damages

Question 4

What’s the difference between special damages and general damages (both compensatory damages)

Answer 4

Special damages are quantifiable losses where general damages are non monetary, such as pain and suffering.

Question 5

damages meant to punish the wrongdoer and deter others from similar wrongdoings.

Answer 5

punitive damages

Question 6

Any intentional unexcused threat of immediate harmful or offensive contact

Answer 6

assault

Question 7

Unexcused and harmful or offensive physical contact intentionally performed

Answer 7

battery

Question 8

involves wrongfully hurting a person’s good reputation.

Answer 8

Defamation

Question 9

What are the two types of defamation and how are they different

Answer 9

Libel is a permanent form of defamation such as writing where slander is verbal defamation

Question 10

A statement made with clear knowledge of it’s falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth.

Answer 10

Actual Malice

Question 11

Someone who invited or allowed on the property of another for their benefit

Answer 11

Licensee

Question 12

Any act that deprives an owner of personal property or of the use of that property without the owners permission and without just cause

Answer 12

Conversion

Question 13

Occurs when someone suffers injury because of another’s failure to live up to a required duty of care

Answer 13

Negligence

Question 14

The understanding that people can act as they wish as long as it doesn’t infringe on another’s rights

Answer 14

duty of care