Torts
Intentionally causing reasonable fear of immediate offensive harmful contact.
What is Assault?
Violation of the duty of care for professionals.
What is malpractice?
A legal claim that requires a manufacturer to use due care in six areas of production.
What is product liability based on negligence?
No nation is required to follow higher legal authority.
What is sovereignty?
Confinement of another’s activities without justification.
What is false imprisonment?
The two types of causation for negligence claim.
What are “in fact” and “proximate” cause?
A fraudulent or reckless claim about a product that results in harm to a consumer.
What is misrepresentation?
The three sources of international law.
What are international customs, treaties, and international organizations?
The two types of defamation.
What are libel and slander?
Law resulting in no liability for a person helping another in distress.
What is a Good Samaritan statute?
When the making of a product departs from its intended design.
What is a manufacturing defect?
The three most common legal systems in the world.
What are common law, civil law, and Islamic law?
Legal remedy for non-monetary losses like pain and suffering.
What are general damages?
An unforseeable event that breaks the link between a negligent act and an injury.
What is a superceding cause?
When foreseeable risks could have been reduced or avoided by reasonable instructions on the product.
What are inadequate warnings?
Two common contract clauses in international dispute resolution.
What are forum selection clause and choice of laws clause?
Intentionally meddling with another person’s possessory interest.
What is trespass to personal property/chattels (or conversion)?
Law that causes a bartender or social host to be liable for an intoxicated person’s subsequent acts.
A defense when a particular consumer has superior knowledge about a product.
What is a knowledgeable user?
The definitions of expropriation vs. confiscation.
What is a government seizes private property for a lawful purpose vs illegal purpose?