Crimes and Torts
Intentional Torts
Negligence
Civil Procedure
Legal Vocabulary
100
Is a private or civil wrong?
What is a Tort
100
The defendant possessed the intent or purpose to inflict the resultant injury
What is intentional torts
100
Planintiff in a negligence action is partially false
What is comparative negligance
100
A court order for a person to do or not to do a particular act
What is an injunction
100
a court order for a person to do or not do a particular act
What is injunction
200
What someone can sue and get money from
What is damages
200
One person intentially puts another in resonable fear of an offensive of harmful bodily contact
What is assault
200
The plaintiffs are aware of a danger but decide to subject themselfs to the risk, that is a defense
What is assumption of the risk
200
Are meant to place the injured party in the position he or she was in prior to the injury or loss
What is compensatory damages
200
anyhting thayt the judge allows to be present to the jury that helps to prove or disprove the alledged actes
What is evidence
300
acknowledge a breach only when the defendant actually intended to inflict harm by her or his action
What is intentional torts
300
An intentional breach of the duty
What is battery
300
Sometimes the law holds a party liable in tort on the basis of absolute
What is strict liabillity
300
Type of damages generally only awarderd in intentional tort cases
What is punitive damages
300
concists of statements made witness under oath
What is witness
400
When the amount of causation is great enough for it to be recognized by the law
What is proximate casue
400
The intentional confinement of a person agianst the person's will and without lawful priviledge
What is False inprisonment
400
Enough that harm occured as a result of the neglect or carlessness of the defendant
What is negligence
400
Lawyers at times handle a civil lawsuit for a percentage of the recovery
What is a contingency free basis
400
A written order by the judge commanding a person to appear, give testomony, and perhaps present other evidence
What is subpoena
500
When one person is liable for the torts of another
What is vicarious liability
500
If the defendent is spoken
What is slander
500
When the amount of causation is great enough for it to be recongized by the law
What is proximate law
500
The party that initiates the lawsuit by filling a complaint
What is plaintiff
500
The jury's decision is called
What is the verdict
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