Intentional Torts and Vicarious Liability

Question 1

Battery

Answer 1

Requires harmful or offensive contact with the plaintiff’s person, intent by defendant to cause the touching, and causation

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Requires an act or threat placing the plaintiff in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact with his person, intent, and causation

Question 3

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Answer 3

Requires extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant causing severe emotional distress to plaintiff and intent by defendant

Question 4

False imprisonment

Answer 4

• The intentional confinement or restraint of plaintiff for any amount of time
• There must be no reasonable means of safe escape

Question 5

Trespass to chattels

Answer 5

• An interference with the plaintiff’s possession of her chattel
• Requires intent to perform the act that interferes with the possession, causation, and damages

Question 6

Conversion

Answer 6

Requires serious interference with plaintiff’s possession of her chattel, intent, causation, and damages.

Question 7

Trespass to land

Answer 7

The physical invasion of another’s land and intent to enter the land or cause physical invasion

Question 8

Private nuisance

Answer 8

A substantial and unreasonable interference with another’s use or enjoyment of his land

Question 9

Public nuisance

Answer 9

An unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public