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Torts
Term | Definition |
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Battery | Defendants acts intentionally cause harmful or offensive contact |
States of mind that satisfy fault | intent, negligence, recklessness |
Appeals need | jurisdiction, preservation, standard of review |
Tort needs | Act, intent(desire or substantial certainty), result in |
Torts to property | Trespass to land, trespass to chattel, conversion |
Torts to person | Battery, Assault, False Imprisonment |
Trespass to land | Plaintiff must prove ownership of land and intention and tangible invasion, intrusion, or entry by defendant onto that land that harms the plaintiffs interest in exclusive possession |
Trespass to land remedies | if no harm=nominal damages, if compensation needed - compensatory damages, injunction, punitive if deliberate or malicious |
False imprisonment | person confines another intentionally with out lawful privilege and against his consent |
Falsie imprisonment, alternative ways to confine | imminent threats or demands, assertion of authority when you don't have such authority, duress of goods if you shouldn't be expected to leave without it |
False imprisonment damages | can recover even if no actual harm |
False imprisonment damages - actual harm required when: | required when unaware of confinement |