Personal Injury Defenses Intentional Torts to Property
100
How many intentional torts involving personal injury are there?
4
100
An affirmative defense to an intentional tort claim; can be express or implied.
Consent
100
Intentionally interfering with with the plaintiff's right of possession by either dispossession or intermeddling.
Trespass to Chattels
200
Intentionally causing harmful or offensive contact to another person who did not consent.
Battery
200
An affirmative defense allowing a person to use reasonable force to defend against an offensive contact or bodily harm that they reasonably believe is about to be intentionally inflicted upon them.
Self-Defense
200
Intentionally committing an act depriving the plaintiff of possession of her chattel or interfering with the plaintiff's chattel in a manner so serious as to deprive plaintiff of its use.
Conversion
300
Committing an act that causes a reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive bodily contact in another.
Assault
300
If a person has committed a felony, a private citizen is privileged to use this defense.
Privilege of Arrest
300
What is the difference between trespass to chattels and conversion?
Conversion is more serious.
400
Intentionally or recklessly acting with extreme or outrageous conduct that causes the party sever emotional distress.
IIED
400
This defense allows parents to use reasonable force or impose reasonable confinement as is necessary to discipline a child.
Parental Discipline
400
Intentionally acting to cause a physical invasion of the land of another person.
Trespass to Land
500
Acting intentionally to confine or restrain another person within boundaries fixed by the defendant, and the other person is conscious of the confinement or harmed by it.
False Imprisonment
500
The use of reasonable force to defend tortious harm to land or belongings.
Defense of Property
500
Privilege asserted when a person entered or interfered with someone else's property in order to prevent injury that is substantially more serious than the trespass or interference.
Defense of Necessity






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