Chapter 7 Torts
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tortfeasor | A person who commits a tort, a wrong doer |
| Duty | Tort law imposes a duty on persons not to intentionally or negligently injure others in society, |
| Assault | The threat of immediate harm or offensive contact |
| Battery | Unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with another person. |
| False Imprisonment | Intentional confinement or restraint of another person without authority or justification and without that person's content. |
| Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress | A defendant's conduct must be outrageous and produce severe emotional distress to constitute intentional infliction of mental distress. |
| Invasion of Privacy | Violation of a person's right to live his or her life without being subjected to unwanted and undesired publicity. |
| Defamation | Harm to the reputation of another causing hatred, contempt, or ridicule. |
| Disparagement | Untrue statement made about products, services, property or reputation of a business. |
| Fraud | Wrongdoer deceives another person out of money, property, or something of value. |
| Trespass to Land | Tort that interferes with an owner's right to exclusive possession of land. Unauthorized use of another person's property. |
| Trespass to Personal Property | Whenever one person injures another person's personal property or the enjoyment of. |
| Conversion | Depriving person of personal property rights. |
| Negligence | an unintentional breach of duty by the defendant that results in harm to another. |
| Foerseeability | Reasonable anticipation of harm or injury is likely to result from the act or omission, objectively reasonable to expect. |
| Duty of Care | the obligation we all owe each other not to cause any unreasonable harm or risk of harm. |
| Breach of Duty | a failure to exercise care or to act as a reasonable person would act. |
| Actual Cause | Actual cause |
| Proximate Cause | Legal cause |
| Liability without fault | A participant in a covered activity will be held liable for any injuries caused by the activity even if he or she was not negligent. |
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