Ch. 7: Intentional Tort

Question 1

Battery

Answer 1

Intentional infliction of harmful or offensive bodily contact.

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Intentional infliction of apprehension of immediate bodily harm or offense of contact.

Question 3

False imprisonment

Answer 3

Intentional confining of a person against her will.

Question 4

Infliction of emotional distress

Answer 4

Extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causing severe emotional distress.

Question 5

Defamation

Answer 5

False communication that injures a person’s reputation.

Question 6

Libel

Answer 6

Written or electronically transmitted defamation.

E.g. television, radio, etc.

Question 7

Slander

Answer 7

Spoken defamation

Question 8

Appropriation

Answer 8

 unauthorized use of a person’s identity, name, or likeness.

Question 9

Intrusion

Answer 9

Unreasonable and highly offensive interference with the seclusion of another.

Question 10

Public disclosure of private facts

Answer 10

Highly offensive publicity of private information.

Question 11

False light

Answer 11

Highly offensive and false publicity about another.

Question 12

Misuse of legal procedure

Answer 12

Torts of malicious prosecution, wrongful civil proceeding, and abuse of process that protect an individual from unjustifiable litigation.

Question 13

Real property

Answer 13

Land and anything attached to it.

Question 14

Trespass to real property

Answer 14

Wrongfully entering on land of another.

Question 15

Nuisance

Answer 15

A nontrespassory interference with another’s use and enjoyment of land.

Question 16

Personal property

Answer 16

Any property other than land.

Question 17

Trespass to personal property

Answer 17

An intentional taking or use of another’s personal property.

Question 18

Conversion

Answer 18

Intentional exercise of control over another’s personal property.

Question 19

Interference with contractual Relations

Answer 19

Intentionally causing one of the parties to a contract not to perform.

Question 20

Disparagement

Answer 20

Publication of false statements about another’s property or products resulting in harm to another’s monetary interests.

Question 21

Fraudulent misrepresentation

Answer 21

A false statement, made with knowledge of its falsity, intended to induce another to act.

Question 22

Tort

Answer 22

A civil wrong causing injury to persons, their property, or their economic interests.

Question 23

Punitive damages

Answer 23

Damages awarded in excess of normal compensation to punish a defendant for a serious civil wrong.

Question 24

Intent

Answer 24

Desire to cause the consequences of an act or knowledge that the consequences are substantially certain to result from the act.

Question 25

Recklessness

Answer 25

Conduct that evidences a conscious disregard of or an indifference to the consequences of the act committed.

Question 26

Privilege

Answer 26

Immunity from tort liability.