Trespass
Torts Against and Within the Family
Products Liability
Malpractice
Negligence
100
an unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of private land.
What is private nuisance
100
An action by parents of an unwanted healthy child for a wrong related to pregnancy such as negligent performance of a sterilization procedure.
What is wrongful pregnancy
100
A guarantee; a commitment imposed by contract or by law that a product or service will meet a specified standard.
What is warranty
100
The failure of a doctor to exercise the skills commonly applied by doctors in the same field under the same circumstances.
What is medical malpractice
100
An obligation to conform to a standard of conduct prescribed by law
What is Duty
200
physically going on someone's land and remaining on the land, going to a prohibited part of the land, or failing to remove goods from the land.
What is intrusion
200
Wrongfully stating or failing to disclose to prospective adoptive parents any available facts on the health or other condition of a child that would be relevant to their decision to adopt the child.
What is wrongful adoption
200
Is held to the standard of an expert in the product manufactured and must use reasonable care to discover and correct manufacturing defects.
What is manufacturer
200
agreement to let something happen based on having a reasonable understanding of the benefits and risks involved.
What is informed consent
200
A person who comes to the aid of another without having a legal obligation to do so.
What is Good Samaritan
300
When an artificial condition on land creates an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily injury to a foreseeable trespassing child too young to appreciate the danger.
What is attractive nuisance
300
An action by or on behalf of an unwanted child who is impaired. The child seeks its own damages in this action.
What is wrongful life
300
Responsibility for harm even if one did not intend the harm and used reasonable care to try and prevent it.
What is strict liability
300
The failure of an attorney to exercise the skills commonly applied by attorneys in the same area of practice under the same circumstances.
What is legal malpractice
300
Unreasonable conduct that endangers someone to whom you owe a duty of care.
What is breach of duty
400
People who are on the land with the express or implied permission of the occupier but are present for their own purposes.
What is licensees
400
A tort committed by one family member against another family member.
What is intrafamily tort
400
Harm or damage caused by a merchant' sale of goods that are not fit for ordinary purposes for which they are used.
What is breach of implied warranty or merchantability
400
to engage in an occupation or profession without malpractice (liability insurance).
What is go bare
400
The degree of care that the law requires in a particular case.
What is standard of care
500
A method of acquiring title to land where a trespasser can obtain title to land by occupying it in a hostile and visible manner for a designated number of continuous years.
What is adverse possession
500
Interference with the companionship, services, affection, and sexual relations one spouse would receive from another.
What is loss of consortium
500
Harm or damage caused by a sale of goods by a merchant who has reason to know the buyer is relying on the expertise of the merchant in selecting the goods for a particular purpose.
What is breach of implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose
500
An unwanted procedure performed by a health care practitioner or a requested procedure performed in the wrong part of the body.
What is medical battery
500
An intervening cause that is beyond the foreseeable risk originally created by the defendant's unreasonable acts or omissions. A cause of harm that is highly extraordinary.
What is superseding cause
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