Personal Injury Torts | Defenses to Personal Injury Torts | Intentional Torts to Property |
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What is 4
How many intentional torts involving personal injury are there?
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What is consent
An affirmative defense to an intentional tort claim, express or implied, if plaintiff, by words or actions, exhibits a willingness to submit to the defendant's conduct.
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What is trespass to chattels
Intentionally interfering with the plaintiff's right of possession by either dispossessing it or intermeddling
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What is battery
Intentionally causing harmful or offensive contact to another person who did not consent
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What is self-defense
A person uses reasonable force to defend against an offensive contact or bodily harm that she reasonably believes is about to be intentionally inflicted upon her.
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What is conversion
Intentionally committing an act depriving the plaintiff of possession of her chattel or interfering with the chattel in a manner so serious as to deprive the plaintiff of the use of the chattel.
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What is assault
Intentionally committing an act causing a plaintiff's reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive bodily contact.
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What is defense of property
Using reasonable force to defend your land or belongings
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What is trespass to land
Intentionally acting to cause a physical invasion of the land of another person.
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What is intentional infliction of emotional distress
Intentionally or recklessly acting with extreme or outrageous conduct that causes the plaintiff severe emotional distress.
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What is parental discipline
The use of reasonable force or imposition of a reasonable confinement as is necessary to discipline a child by an educator or parent.
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What is necessity
A 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.
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What is false imprisonment
Intentionally confining or restraining another person within boundaries fixed by the defendant, and the other person is conscious of the confinement or harmed by it.
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What is privilege of arrest
If a person has committed a felony, a private citizen is privileged to use force to make an arrest, even if there is a reasonable mistake as to the identity of the felon, but not as to the commission of the felony.
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What is conversion is more serious and usually involves the item being destroyed or damaged beyond usability.
What is the difference between trespass to chattels and conversion?
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