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What Are the 3 Elements of Battery
- 1. Harmful or offensive contact with the P's person
- 2. Intent to cause the above
- 3. Causation (substantial factor)
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What five torts can be the result of transferred intent?
- 1 Assault
- 2 Battery
- 3 False Imprisonment
- 4Trespass to land
- 5Trespass to chattels
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Elements of Assault
- 1. Creating a reasonable apprehension in PĀ
- 2. of immediate harmful or offense contact to Ps person
- 3. Intent
- 4. Causation
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Elements of False Imprisonment
- 1. An act or omission that confines or restrains P
- 2. to a bounded area
- 3. Intent
- 4. Causation
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Requirements for 'Shoplifting Detention' Defense to False Imprisonment
- 1. Reasonable belief as to fact of theft
- 2. Detention in a reasonable manner
- 3. For a reasonable period of time to make an investigation
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Elements of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED)
- 1. Extreme and outrageous conduct
- 2. Intent (actual or reckless)
- 3. Causation
- "4. Damages (severe emotional distress, actual damages)"
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Requirements for IIED to a bystander
- 1. P was present when injury occurred to other person
- 2. P was a close relative of person
- 3. D knew that P was present and a close relative
- *presence and relationship not required if D had a design or purpose to cause distress
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Elements of Trespass to Land
- 1. Physical invasion of P's real property by D
- 2. Intent to enter land
- 3. Causation
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Elements of Trespass to Chattels
- 1. Interference with P's right of possession
- 2. Intent to perform the act
- 3. Causation
- 4. Damage
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Elements of Conversion
- 1. Interference with P's possession serious enough to warrant that D pay full value
- 2. Intent
- 3. Causation
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When is defense of property available?
- 1 After a request to desist the commission of the tort
- 2 Reasonable force may be used to prevent the commission of the tort
- "3 Defense does not apply after commission, although it does apply during hot pursuit"
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Defenses to Intentional Torts
- 1. Consent (actual or implied)
- "2. Self Defense (reasonable belief, no retaliation, no retreat required except for deadly force outside home, not allowed for aggressor, reasonable force)"
- 3. Defense of others
- "4. Defense of property (reasonable, but never deadly, force)"
- 5. Reentry onto land
- 6. Recapture of Chattels (force may only be used in hot pursuit)
- 7. Privilege of arrest
- "8. Necessity (private or public, only for property torts)"
- 9. Discipline (parent or teacher)
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What is the only intentional tort that requires proof of actual damages?
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
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Elements of Defamation
- 1. Defamatory language by D
- 2. Of or concerning P
- 3. Publication (single third party)
- 4. Damage to reputation of P*
- 5. Falsity
- 6. Fault by D
- *damage not required for libel or slander per se
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Slander Per Se Categories
- 1. Business or profession
- 2. Loathsome disease
- 3. Crime of moral turpitude
- 4. Unchastity of a woman
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Fault Requirements for Defamation re Matter of Public Concern
- Public figure = malice (intent or recklessness)
- Private figure = negligence sufficient
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Defenses to Defamation
- 1. Consent
- 2. Truth (except for public concern)
- 3. Absolute privilege
- a. Gov't proceedings
- b. Between spouses
- "4. Qualified Privileges (public policy promotes candor, can be lost if abused, e.g., giving a reference)"
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"In suit for Defamation, why is the status of the plaintiff important?"
- "If the plaintiff is only a private person, only negligence regarding the falsity must be proved if the matter is of public concern"
- "If the plaintiff is a public figure, actual malice must be established"
- If the plaintiff is a private person and the matter is private no fault need be shown
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What are the four torts of invasion to privacy?
- Appropriation of Plaintiffs picture or name
- Intrusion on Plaintiffs Affairs or Seclusion
- Publication of Facts Placing Plaintiff in False Light
- Public Disclosure of Private Facts about Plaintiff
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Elements of Appropriation
1. Unauthorized use of P's picture or name in connection with advertisement or promotion of products or services
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Elements of Intrusion on Plaintiffs Affairs or Seclusion
- 1. Prying or intruding on affairs or seclusion of P
- 2. Objection to a reasonable person
- 3. The subject matter is private
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Elements of Publication of Facts Placing Plaintiff in False Light
- 1. Wide publication of facts placing P in false light
- 2. Objectionable to a reasonable person
- 3. Malice if matter concerns the public interest
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Elements of Public Disclosure of Private Facts
- 1. Wide publication of private information about P
- 2. Objectionable to a reasonable person
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Defenses to Invasion of Privacy Torts
- 1. Consent
- 2. Absolute Privileges
- 3. Qualified Privileges
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Elements of Misrepresentation (both intentional and negligent)
- 1. Misstatement of fact (or opinion if from expert)
- "2. Scienter (i.e., malice) for intentional; negligence is an alternative"
- 3. Intent to induce reliance
- 4. Causation (actual reliance)
- 5. Justifiable reliance
- 6. Damages (pecuniary)
- (7). Negligent Misrepresentation requires commercial D
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Elements of Interference with Business Relations
- 1. Valid existing contract or expectancy
- 2. D knows of contract or expectancy
- 3. Intentional interference
- 4. Damage
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Elements of Negligence
- 1. Existence of duty
- 2. Breach
- 3. Actual and proximate causation
- 4. Damage
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Special Duties for (1) Child (2) Professional (3) Common Carriers and Innkeepers
- "(1) Child of like age, intelligence, experience (unless adult activity)"
- (2) A reasonable professional in similar community
- (3) Liable even for slight negligence
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Duty owed undiscovered trespasser
No duty
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Duty owed discovered or expected trespasser
- Landowner must warn or make safe
- Concealed
- Unsafe
- Artificial conditions involving a serious risk of injury that the o/o knows of
- **no duty for owed for natural conditions
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Duty owed licensee
- Any dangerous condition o/o knows of
- That creates an unreasonable risk of harm to the licensee and
- that the licensee is unlikely to discover
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Duty owed invitee
- Any dangerous condition o/o should know aboutĀ
- so must make reasonable inspection
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Elements of Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
- 1. P was within danger zone of physical impact
- 2. P must suffer physical symptoms of distress (contrast with IIED)
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Res Ipsa Loquiter Requirements
- 1. Usually wouldn't happen without negligence
- 2. Negligence attributed to D (often instrumentality within D's exclusive control)
- 3. P not contributorily negligent
- *This merely creates inference of negligence for the jury to decide on*
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Product liability (both negligence and strict liability theories)
- Must have a commercial supplier
- 1. The defect must have existed when it left D's control (inference if in normal channels)
- 2. Successful tort theory
- "a. Negligence (in design, manufacture, warnings, inspection)"
- b. Strict Liability (need to show unreasonably dangerous condition)
- "*Under both theories, P must be in foreseeable zone of risk*"
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Nuisance
- Conduct objectionable to an average person
- Private nuisance - P has possession of land affected
- Public nuisance - P has been uniquely harmed
- Resolution involves balancing of competing interests
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