EssentialsOFBusLaw_r6_2

Question 1

Absolute Privilege

Answer 1

A witness testifying in a court or legislature may never be sued for defamation.

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Occurs when a defendant does some act that makes a plaintiff fear an imminent batter.

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

An intenetional touching of anouther person in a way that is unwanted or offensive.

Question 4

Compensatory Damages

Answer 4

Money intended to restore a plaintiff to the position he was in before the injury.

Question 5

Element

Answer 5

A fact that a plaintiff must prove to win a lawsuit.

Question 6

False Imprisonment

Answer 6

The intentional restraint of another person without reasonable cause and without consent.

Question 7

Fraud

Answer 7

Injuring another person by deliberate deception.

Question 8

Intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Answer 8

Results from extreme and outrageous conduct that causes serious emotional harm.

Question 9

Intentional torts

Answer 9

Harm caused by a deliberate action.

Question 10

Intrusion

Answer 10

A tort if a reasonable person would find the invasion of her private life offensive.

Question 11

Libel

Answer 11

Written defamation

Question 12

Negligence

Answer 12

Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than by deliberate conduct

Question 13

Opinion

Answer 13

Generally a valid defense in a defamation suit because it cannot be proben true or false.

Question 14

Punitive damages

Answer 14

Intended to punish the defendant for conduct that is extreme and outrageous.

Question 15

Qualified privilege

Answer 15

Exists between two people who have a legitimate need to exchange information.

Question 16

Single-recovery principle

Answer 16

Requires a court to settle the matter once and for all, by awarding a lump sum for past and future expenses.

Question 17

Slander

Answer 17

Oral defamation

Question 18

Strict Liability

Answer 18

A type of tort lawsuit which does not require a plaintiff to prove the element of fault.

Question 19

Tort

Answer 19

A violation of a duty imposed by the civil law.

Question 20

Tortious interference with a contract

Answer 20

The defendant improperly induced a third party to breach a contract with the plaintiff

Question 21

Tortious interference with a prospective advantage

Answer 21

Malicious interference with a developing economic relationship.