Personal Injury | Defenses | Intentional Torts to Property |
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How many intentional torts involving personal injury are there?
4
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An affirmative defense to an intentional tort claim; can be express or implied.
Consent
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Intentionally interfering with with the plaintiff's right of possession by either dispossession or intermeddling.
Trespass to Chattels
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Intentionally causing harmful or offensive contact to another person who did not consent.
Battery
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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
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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
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Committing an act that causes a reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive bodily contact in another.
Assault
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If a person has committed a felony, a private citizen is privileged to use this defense.
Privilege of Arrest
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What is the difference between trespass to chattels and conversion?
Conversion is more serious.
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Intentionally or recklessly acting with extreme or outrageous conduct that causes the party sever emotional distress.
IIED
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This defense allows parents to use reasonable force or impose reasonable confinement as is necessary to discipline a child.
Parental Discipline
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Intentionally acting to cause a physical invasion of the land of another person.
Trespass to Land
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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
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The use of reasonable force to defend tortious harm to land or belongings.
Defense of Property
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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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