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Tort law basics: negligence, defamation, battery, assault
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1A [blank_start]tort[blank_end] is a violation of duty imposed by the civil law.
- Atort
2A surgeon who removes the wrong kidney from a patient commits a tort called [blank_start]negligence[blank_end].
A business executive who deliberately steals a client away from a competitor commits a tort called [blank_start]interference with a contract[blank_end]
A con artist who tricks you out of your money with a phony offer to sell you a boat commits a tort called [blank_start]fraud[blank_end]- Anegligence
- Binterference with a contract
- Cfraud
3An [blank_start]intentional[blank_end] tort is harmed caused by deliberate action
- Aintentional
4[blank_start]libel[blank_end] is written defamation
[blank_start]slander[blank_end] is oral defamation- Alibel
- Bslander
- Cslander
- Dlibel
5defamtion are false statements that harms someones reputation
- ATrue
- BFalse
6in order to prove defamation, you need to have these elements
- Athe defamation statement
- Bfalsity of the statement
- Ctyped statement
- Dcommunicated to at least another person
- Einjury
7[blank_start]slander[blank_end] per se: when oral statements relate to criminal or sexual conduct, contagious diseases or professional abilities, they are assumed to be harmful to the subject's reputation.
[blank_start]libel[blank_end] per se: when oral statements relate to criminal or sexual conduct, contagious diseases or professional abilities, they are assumed to be harmful to the subject's reputation.- Alibel
- Bslander
- Cslander
- Dlibel
8[blank_start]Absolute privilege[blank_end] allows a witness to testify in a court without being sued for defamation
- AAbsolute privilege
9[blank_start]Battery[blank_end] is an intentional touching of another person that is harmful or offensive
[blank_start]Assault[blank_end] is an act that makes a person reasonably fear an immenent battery- ABattery
- BAssault
10taking someones personal property without consent is called
- Aconversion
- Bfraud
- Cconsent
11compensatory damages/ actual damages: money intended to restore a plaintiff to the position he or she was in [blank_start]before[blank_end] the injury
- Abefore
12The single recovery principle requires a court to settle the mater once and for all by awarding a lump sum for past and future expenses
- ATrue
- BFalse
13[blank_start]Punitive damages[blank_end] are damages that are intended to punish the defendant for conduct that is extreme and outrageous. The court must consider three guideposts: 1) reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct 2) the ratio between the harm suffered and the award 3) the difference between the punitive award any civil penalties used in similar cases
- APunitive damages
14Tortious interference with a contract is an intentional tort in which the defendant improperly induced a third party to breach a contract with the plaintiff, it has to have the following four elements
- Aa contract between the plaintiff and a third party
- Bthe defendant knew of the contract
- Cthere was injury to the plaintiff
- Dthe defendant improperly induced the third party to breach the contract or made performance of the contract impossible
- EStolen ideas
15The defendant may use justification to show that their conduct was fair (interference wuth a contract)
- ATrue
- BFalse
16Tortious interference with [blank_start]a prospective advantage[blank_end] is malicious interference with a deceloping economic relationship
- Aa prospective advantage
- BBusiness relations
17Lowest Liability: [blank_start]Adult Trespassing[blank_end]
Mid-level Liability: [blank_start]Trespassing Children[blank_end]
Higher Liability: [blank_start]Licensee[blank_end] ( a person on someone's property for their own purposes)
Highest Liability: [blank_start]Invitee[blank_end] (A person who has the right to enter anothers property because ot is public)- ALicensee
- BTrespassing Children
- CAdult Trespassing
- DInvitee
18if the plaintiff is even slightly negligent, they don't receive anything.. this is called
- Acontributory negligence
- Bneglicene
- Cassumption of risk
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