| Term | Definition |
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| Tort | private wrong committed by 1 persomn against another person or another person's property. A person who commits a tort is called a tortfeasor.The tortfeasor is the defeandent and the victim is the plaintiff. |
| Intentional Tort | act that is intented to hurt, embarrass, or scare another person or to damage another person's property. Assault, Battery, Defamation, Intentional infliction of emotional distress, False imprisonment, Invasion os privacy. |
| Assualt | occurs when an individual threatens to harm an innocent person using words, gestures, or both. |
| Battery | occurs when someone deliberately touches another person or that person's clothing against his or her wishes. |
| False Imprisonment | occurs when one person unlawfully restraints another from maving freely. It may invove physical restraint or merely a show on force. |
| Defamation | occurs when one person lies about another in a way that damage his or her reputation. There is 2 types, libel(written) and slander(spoken) |
| Invation of Privacy | occurrs when someone violates this right. |
| Intentional Inflication of Emotional Distress | occurrs when one person purposely causes another person mental anguish. |
| Negligence | is a tort that occurrs due to carelessness.It is an accident. The injury wan not intended. there are 4 elementes of negligence. the defendent owns the plaintiff a duty of care. the defendent committed a breach of that duty. the breach of duty was the proximate cause of harm. the plaintiff suffered actual harm. |
| Proximate Cause | is the cause that immediately and directly results in a specific event. if a person can eleminate any one of the 4 elemants, the lawsuit will not be successful. |
| Contributory Negligence | is when the victim did something that helped cause his or her own injury |
| Comparitive Negligence | is when the negligence of the victim is compared to that of the defendent. A victim who is partially responsible may collect only partial damage. |
| Assumption od Risk | occurs when the victim understood the risk involving in an activity and took the chance of being injured. |
| Strict Liability | exist even if the defendent is not negligence. 1.) if you engae in abnormally dangerous activity.EX: target practice,blasting,crop dusting,ect. 2.) ownership of dangerous animals, using explosives, storing toxic, or flammable materials. |
| Compensatory (Actual) Damage | it is a monitary award given to the injury party to compensate fo rhteir loss as if the tort never accurd. |
| Punitive Damage | are addition damage. The ammount they come out with ment to punish the defendent not compensate the plaintiff. |
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