Torts Flashcards

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Torts (Checklist)

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Mnemonic: In Nevada My Sister Very Profoundly Calls Drunks Idiots

I. Intentional Torts (ABC FITT)
II. Negligence
III.  Miscellaneous Torts
IV. Strict Liability
V. Vicarious Liability
VI. Product Liability
VII. Crossovers
VIII. Defamation
IX. Invasion of Privacy
X. Tort Damages
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Battery

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Battery is the intentional, harmful, or offensive touching of another.

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Assault

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Assault is the intentional threatening of another with battery and the creating of reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm in the victim.

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Transferred Intent Doctrine

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The transferred Intent Doctrine is applicable when a defendant, while in the process of committing a tort against one person, unintentionally harms a third person OR commits a different tort.
In such a case, the defendant’s wrongful intent is transferred to include the unintended victim or tortious act.

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Substantial Certainty Doctrine

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The Substantial Certainty Doctrine hold that is the defendant does an at with the knowledge that is it substantially certain to produce a particular result, the defendant is deemed to have intended the result and is liable for his act.

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