A person who has personal knowledge of the facts in a case
What is a Witness?
100
An act that causes private injury to the person or property of another
What is a Tort?
100
Materials or statements presented in a trial to prove or disprove alleged facts
What is Evidence?
100
When one person intentionally puts another in reasonable fear of an offensive or harmful bodily contact
What is Assault?
100
Harmful or offensive touching of another
What is Battery?
200
A monetary award to compensate for the loss caused by a tort?
What is Damages?
200
The elements of a tort
What are Duty, Breach/Violation of Duty, Causation, and Injury?
200
Statements by witnesses under oath
What is Testimony?
200
Spoken defamation
What is Slander?
200
An intentional misrepresentation of an existing important fact (a lie) that is relied on and cause the victim to part with a legal right or something valuable
What is Fraud?
300
A type of tort where the defendant wanted to cause the injury/harm to the plaintiff
What is Intentional Tort?
300
The three classifications of Torts
What are Intentional Torts, Negligence, and Strict Liability?
300
A written court order compelling a person to appear in court and testify
What is a Subpoena?
300
Double Jeopardy!!
The most common tort caused by acting in a careless manner and causing injury to another/property
What is Negligence?
300
Written defamation
What is Libel?
400
The uninvited intrusion into an individual's personal relationships and activities
What is Invasion of Privacy?
400
The three defenses to Negligence
What are Contributory Negligence, Comparative Negligence, and Assumption of Risk?
400
The Judgment
What is the final result of a trial?
400
Stealing property, destroying property, or using property without the owner's consent (or inconsistent with the owner's rights)
What is Conversion?
400
Trespassing
What is the entry onto the property of another without the owner's consent?
500
The two types of damages that a Plaintiff could collect
What are Compensatory and Punitive Damages?
500
Double Jeopardy!!
When the amount of causation is great enough for it to be recognized by the law
What is Proximate Cause?
500
The Writ of Execution
What is the process by which a judgment for money is enforced?
500
Strict (absolute) Liability
What is a liability that exists even though the defendant was not negligent?
500
Double Jeopardy!!
Statements about people that can injure them. They are false statements that are communicated to a third person and cause the victim to be ridiculed by others.