Torts

Question 1

Battery

Answer 1

Under tort law, batter is an act that was intended to and did cause offensive or harmful contact to plaintiff’s person.

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Under tort law, assault is an act that is intended to and does cause reasonable apprehension of an immediate battery.

Question 3

False Imprisonment

Answer 3

Under tort law, false imprisonment is an act or omission that intends to and does cause the confinement of plaintiff to a bounded area of which plaintiff is aware or injured by.

Question 4

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Answer 4

Under tort law, IIED is the intentional and actual causing of severe emotional distress to plaintiff by defentant’s extreme and outrageous condcut or recklessness as to the effect of his conduct.

Question 5

Trespass to land

Answer 5

Under tort law, trespass to land is the intentional and actual physical invasion of plaintiff’s real property.

Question 6

Trespass to chattels

Answer 6

Under tort law, trespass to chattels is the intentional interference with the property of aother that results in actual damages to the property or dispossesses the plaintiff of the property.

Question 7

Conversion

Answer 7

Under tort law, conversion is the intentional interference with the property of another that results in damages tothe property serious enough to warrant payment of full value or dispossesses the plaintiff of his property.

Question 8

Defamation

Answer 8

Under tort law, dafamation is the use and publication to a third person of defamatory language which concerns plaintiff’s and causes damage to his reputation.

Question 9

Invasion of right of privacy - Appropriation

Answer 9

Under tort law, invasion of privacy by appropriation of plaintiff’s name or picture is the unauthorized use of same for defendant’s commercial advantage.

Question 10

Invasion of privacy - Intrusion

Answer 10

Under tort law, invasion of privacy by intrusion is the act of prying or intruding into plaintiff’s private affairs or seclusion which would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.

Question 11

Invasion of privacy - False Light

Answer 11

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Question 12

Invasion of privacy - Disclosure of Private Facts

Answer 12

x

Question 13

Intentional Misrepresentation

Answer 13

x

Question 14

Negligent Misrepresentation

Answer 14

x

Question 15

Interference with Business Relations

Answer 15

x

Question 16

Wrongful Institution of legal proceedings

Answer 16

x

Question 17

Negligence

Answer 17

x

Question 18

General Duty of Care

Answer 18

x

Question 19

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Answer 19

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