Intentional Torts

Question 1

Battery

Answer 1

1. Voluntary Action
2. Intend to make harmful or offensive contact
3. Harmful or offensive contract occurs

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

1. Voluntary action
2. Intended to create the apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact
3. An apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact occurs

Question 3

False Imprisonment

Answer 3

1. Voluntary action
2. Intended to confine plaintiff
3. Confinement occurs
4. Plaintiff was aware or harmed by the confinement

Question 4

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED)

Answer 4

1. Voluntary action
2. Intended for conduct to be extreme and outrageous
3. Plaintiff suffers severe emotional distress
4. There is a causal connection between defendant’s conduct and plaintiff’s injury

Question 5

Trespass to Land

Answer 5

1. Voluntary action
2. Intended to enter property
3. Entered property

Question 6

Trespass to Chattels

Answer 6

1. Voluntary action
2. Intends to interfere with owner’s possession of chattel
3. Interference of owner’s possession of chattel occurs
4. Owner is harmed by the interference

Question 7

Conversion of Chattels

Answer 7

1. Voluntary action
2. Intended to exercise extensive control over owner’s chattel
3. Depreciation of owner’s control over the chattel occurs
4. Owner is harmed by the depreciation of control

Question 8

Intent

Answer 8

1. Purpose of the action

2. Knowledge that the action will create, with substantially certainty, a result

Question 9

Single Intent Jurisdiction

Answer 9

In a battery, the defendant only needs to intended to make a harmful or offensive contact to manifest intent.

Question 10

Dual Intent Jurisdiction

Answer 10

In a battery, the defendant needs to intend to make contact and needs to intend for that contact to be harmful or offensive to manifest intent.

Question 11

Transferred Intent

Answer 11

In a battery, the defendant does not need to make contact with their target. Rather, he only needs to intend to make a harmful or offensive contact with another individual. Thus, he is liable to an unintended target of his contact.

Question 12

Apprehension

Answer 12

Is an “awareness” not “fear”

Question 13

Imminent

Answer 13

No significant delay