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Tort Law
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- 1business tortinvolve wrongful interference with the business rights of others.
- 2cyber torttorts committed via the Internet
- 3compensatory damagesintended to compensate or reimburse a person for actual losses
- 4special damagescompensate plaintif for quantifiable monetary losses
- 5general damagescompensate individuals (not companies) for the non-monetary aspects of harm suffered, like pain and suffering
- 6punitive damagespunish the wrongdoer and deter others from similar wrongdoing
- 7intentional tortrequires intent to be considered an intentional tort
- 8tortfeasorthe one committing the tort
- 9assaultany intentional and unexcused threat or immediate harmful or offensive contact, including words or acts that create in another person a reasonable apprehension of imminent harm in the plaintiff
- 10batterycompletion of the act that caused apprehension, an unexcused and harmful or offensive physical contact.
- 11false imprisonmentintentional confinement or restraint of another person's activities without justification.
- 12intentional infliction of emotional distressintentional act that amounts to extreme and outrageous conduct resulting in severe emotional distress.
- 13defamationinvolves wrongfully hurting a good person's reputation
- 14libelbreaching duty in writing or other permanent form that makes false, defamatory statements of facts about others.
- 15slanderoral reach
- 16evasion of privacythe use of a person's name or likeness for commercial purporses without permission, wrongful intrusion into a person's private activities, publication of information that places a person in a false light, or disclosure of private facts that a reasonable person would find objectionable
- 17appropriationthe use of another person's name, likeness, or other characteristic without permission and for the benefit of the user
- 18fraudulent misrepresentationWillingly lying with the intent to deceive to get money from someone
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- Business Law Flashcards on Tort Law, created by jen44 on 20/09/2013.
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