IT Flashcards
1
Q
4 Premies Liability Plaintiffs
A
- Unknown trespassers
- Known trespassers
- Licensee
- Invitee
2
Q
List IT
A
- Battery
- Assault
- False Imprisonment
- IIMD
- Trespass to land
- Trespass to chattel
- Conversion
3
Q
Elements of battery
A
- Harmful or offensive conduct
- With P’s person
- Intent
- Causation.
P can recover nominal damages even if no actual damages are proved
4
Q
Definition of battery: harmful offensive contact
A
Contact unpermitted by a reasonably or normal person
5
Q
Elements of assault
A
- D places P in reasonable apprehension of
- An immediate battery
- Intent and
- Causation
P can recover nominal damages even if no actual damages are proved.
6
Q
Elements of False Imprisonment
A
- Act or omission that causes restraint or confinement
- to a bounded area
- Intent
4.Causation
P may recover nominal damages even if no actual damages proved.
7
Q
Elements of IIED
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- Act by D that = extreme and outrageous conduct
- Intent or recklessness
- causation
- damages – severe emotional damages
Actual damages are necessary.
8
Q
Elements of trespass to land
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- physical invasion of P’s real property
- intent
- causation
9
Q
Explain members of a fragile class for IIED
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For IIED, the exceptions to need for outrageous conduct: 1. children 2. elderly 3. pregnant women. D has to know woman is pregnant
10
Q
Element of Trespass to Chattel
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- D’s act that interferes with P’s right of possession in a chattel
- intent
- causation
- damages (at least actual damages to either the chattel or the possessory right)
11
Q
Elements of conversion
A
trespass to chattel so serious that D should pay P the full value
12
Q
IT Defenses
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- Consent (P must have legal capacity)
- Self-defense
- Privilege of arrest
- Necessity
- Discipline (teachers)
13
Q
Limitation of transferred intent
A
Tort intended and tort accomplished must both be:
- assault
- battery
- false imprisonment
- trespass to chattels
- trespass to land
