INTENTIONAL TORTS
The two forms of defamation.
ANSWER: What are libel and slander?
Unauthorized entry onto another's real property.
ANSWER: What is trespass to land?
This defense permits reasonable force to prevent bodily injury.
ANSWER: What is self-defense?
No intentional tort occurs when a shopper stumbles into another person because an escalator lurches unexpectedly.
ANSWER: What is no intentional tort?
This tort occurs when civil lawsuits are misused.
ANSWER: What is abuse of process?
Using another person's personal property without permission.
ANSWER: What is trespass to chattel?
Breaking into a pharmacy to extinguish a fire illustrates this defense.
ANSWER: What is necessity?
A merchant who reasonably detains a suspected shoplifter may rely on this protection.
ANSWER: What is the merchant protection statute?
Confining a person against her will.
ANSWER: What is false imprisonment?
False written statements harming reputation are called this.
ANSWER: What is libel?
Taking someone's bicycle and riding it across town.
ANSWER: What is conversion?
One of the most common examples of implied consent.
ANSWER: What is emergency medical treatment?
Battery differs from assault because battery requires this.
ANSWER: What is physical contact?
This tort requires harmful or offensive physical contact.
ANSWER: What is battery?
False spoken statements harming reputation are called this.
ANSWER: What is slander?
Conversion differs from trespass to chattel because it involves putting property to this.
ANSWER: What is the tortfeasor's own use?
This requires understanding and voluntary acceptance of conduct.
ANSWER: What is informed consent?
Fraud differs from misrepresentation because the victim gives up this.
ANSWER: What is something of value?
This tort requires apprehension of contact but not actual contact.
ANSWER: What is assault?
Posting false flyers accusing a neighbor of child molestation is this tort.
ANSWER: What is libel?
A trespass causing no actual damage is called this.
ANSWER: What is a technical trespass?
A law limiting the time to file a lawsuit.
ANSWER: What is a statute of limitations?
Filing an unfounded criminal complaint against another person is this tort.
ANSWER: What is malicious prosecution?