Defenses
This defense means you used force to protect yourself from someone about to hurt you.
What is self-defense?
This is the legal way to end a marriage.
What is divorce?
convincing someone to do something they don’t want to do based on the leverage you have over them
What is Blackmail?
Unlike its criminal counterpart, in civil law, this tort occurs the moment there is unprivileged touching of another person.
What is Battery?
This is land and anything involved with the property
What is Real Estate?
This defense says a person was too mentally ill to know what they were doing or that it was wrong when they broke the law.
What is Insanity?
This is money one parent pays to help with the kids' care after the parents split up.
What is child support?
A false signature on checks or documents
What is Forgery?
A store manager may face this tort claim if they detain a suspected shoplifter for an unreasonable period or in an unreasonable manner.
What is False Imprisonment?
This person owns a house or land and can rent it out to others
What is a landlord?
This defense says kids under 7 years old usually cannot be found guilty of a crime because they're too young to understand right from wrong
What is Infancy?
This decides who the child lives with most of the time and who makes big decisions in the child's life.
What is Custody?
The act of betraying one’s own country
What is Treason?
An intentional misrepresentation of a material fact made to induce another to part with something of value.
What is Fraud?
This is the person who rents a house or apartment from the owner
What is a tenant?
This defense means you werent in control of your actions because you were uncoincsious or acting without thinking.
What is automatism?
This court order prevents someone from harming or threatening a family member or partner.
What is a restraining order?
It is illegal to extort money or favors for not making a computer crash
What is National Information Infrastructure Act?
Intentional interference with the personal property of another, essentially treating someone else’s property as your own.
What is Conversion?
This paper officially transfers ownership of land or a house from one person to another
What is a Deed?
This defense works if you commited a crime only because someone threatned you with immediate harm or death.
What is coercion?
In some states, stuff you get during marriage is split 50/50 when you divorce.
What is community property?
The crime of stealing the funds or property of an employer, company, or government, or misappropriating money or assets held in trust.
What is Embezzlement?
This legal theory holds a manufacturer liable for a defective product even if they exercised all possible care.
What is strict Liability?
This lets you walk across or use a small part of your neighbors land for a good reason
What is an easement?