Chapter 4

Question 1

Torts

Answer 1

Civil wrongs against people and property

Most crimes are torts, not all torts are crimes

Question 2

Stick liability

Answer 2

No wrongdoing

Question 3

Assault

Answer 3

Unwarranted threat off immediate harmful contact

Question 4

Battery

Answer 4

Unwarranted act of wrongful contact

Question 5

False imprisonment

Answer 5

Intentional confinement without legal justification

Question 6

Defamation

Answer 6

Publication of a false harmful fact about an individual

Question 7

Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Answer 7

Extreme and outrageous conduct

Question 8

Invasion of privacy

Answer 8

Intrusion into a persons affairs or seclusions
False light
Public disclosure of private facts
Appropriation of identity

Question 9

Trespass to land

Answer 9

Intentional invasion without owners consent

Question 10

Negligence

Answer 10

Unintentional failure to exercise reasonable care resulting in a foreseeable injury to another

Question 11

5 elements of negligence

Answer 11

1. Duty
2. Breach of duty
3. Compensator loss suffered by plaintiff
4. Cause in fact
5. Proximate clause

Question 12

Strict liability

Answer 12

Liability imposed without regard to fault

Question 13

Appropriation

Answer 13

Use of a persons name or likeness without permission and for the users benefit

Question 14

Disparagement of property

Answer 14

When:

Injurious falsehood about another party’s product

Or

Falsehood about another party’s ownership of certain property

Question 15

Proximate cause

Answer 15

An event sufficiently related to a legally recognizable injury to be held to be the cause of that injury.