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2.03 BL
2.03 Vocabulary - Business Law
Question | Answer |
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Assumption of Risk | knowing of risk and still taking the chance. |
Comparative Negligence | negligence of each party is compared. |
Contributory Negligence | plaintiff helps cause his or her injuries. |
Defamation | injuring another’s reputation |
False Imprisonment | false arrest. |
Intentional Tort | know and desire the consequences of your act. |
Invasion of Privacy | interfering with a person’s right to be left alone. |
Libel | false statement made in writing. |
Negligence | Failure to exercise a degree of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in those circumstances. |
Nuisance | anything that interferes with the enjoyment of life. |
Proximate Cause | legal connection between unreasonable conduct and the resulting harm. |
Proximate Cause | something that produces a result, without it the result would no have occurred. |
Slander | false statement made orally. |
Strict Liability | participation in ultrahazardous activity |
Tort | One person’s interference with another person’s rights, either through intent, negligence, or strict liability. |
Tortfeasor | person who committed a tort. |
Trespass | wrongful damage to or interference with the property of another. |
Unintentional Tort | lacks the determination of mind. |