Intentional Torts
What intentional tort occurs when a person causes another person to reasonably fear immediate harmful or offensive contact?
What is Assault?
What is the failure to use reasonable care that results in harm to another person?
What is Negligence?
What defense applies when a person knowingly and voluntarily accepts the risk of possible harm?
What is Assumption of risk?
What is a serious crime that is generally punishable by imprisonment for more than one year?
What is Felony?
What crime involves intentionally deceiving another person or business for financial or personal gain?
What is Fraud?
What intentional tort occurs when someone intentionally causes harmful or offensive physical contact with another person?
What is Battery?
What are the four elements a plaintiff must prove in a negligence case?
What is Duty, breech of duty, causation, and damages?
What defense allows a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves from threatened harm?
What is Self-defense?
What is less serious crime that is generally punishable by up to one year in jail?
What is Misdemeanor?
What crime occurs when a person wrongfully takes money or property that was entrusted to them?
What is Embezzlement?
What intentional tort occurs when a person intentionally confines another person without legal justification or consent?
What is False imprisonment?
What legal duty requires a person to act as a reasonably careful person would, under similar circumstances?
What is Duty of care?
What defense applies when a person gives permission for an act that would otherwise be considered a tort?
What is consent?
What Latin term refers to the criminal intent or guilty mind required to commit many crimes?
What is Mens rea?
What crime involves buying or selling securities based on important confidential information that is not available to the public?
What is Insider trading?
What tort occurs when someone makes a false statement about another person that harms that person's reputation?
What is Defamation?
What type of cause exists when the harm suffered was a reasonably foreseeable result of the defendant's actions?
What is Proximate cause?
What defense allows a person to use reasonable force to protect their property from interference or harm?
What is Defense of property?
What latin term refers to the guilty act or criminal action committed by a person?
What is Actus reus?
What crime involves disguising illegally obtained money so that it appears to have come from a legitimate source?
What is money laundering?
What intentional tort occurs when a person intentionally enters or remains on another person's property without permission?
What is Trespass to land?
What type of damages are intended to compensate an injured person for losses caused by the defendant?
What is Compensatory damages?
What legal principle may reduce plaintiff's recovery when the plaintiff also contributes to thier own injury?
What is Comparative negligence?
What standard proof must the prosecution meet to convict a defendant in a criminal case?
What is Beyond a reasonable doubt?
What type of crime is generally committed by business professional through deception for financial gain rather than through physical violence?
What is White-collar crime?