Conversion

Question 1

requires

Answer 1

1) Fault (intent to exercise dominion)
2) exercise of dominion ove the chattel of another AND
3) Deprivation to plaintiff of the full value of the chattel (constructive dispossession)

Question 2

just another word for

Answer 2

theft (civil context)

Question 3

conversions are almost always

Answer 3

a trespass to chattel too. (vice versa is “some”)

Question 4

Intent in fault element (1) is to the ____ ___.

Answer 4

volitional act.

Question 5

A exercises dominion over B’s property, mistakenly thinking that the property is his (A’s) own, and A was negligent (or not) in making that mistake.?

Answer 5

Looks like negligence, but it’s CONVERSION.
intent is to exercise dominion (which he had, even though he thought it was his own) **intent transferred from volitional act to result (except dispossession in trespass to chattel)