Int torts.txt

• 1) voluntary act
• 2) intent
• 3) causation
• 4) harm
• 5) lack of privilege or defense

Acts are not voluntary if product of pure reflex or if the def is unconscious when the act is performed

• 1) def desires act will cause the harmful result described by the tort; or
• 2) def knows that it is substantially certain that such a result will occur

Form of intent; if a def mentally incompetent, or a is a minor, does not preclude a finding that he possessed intent to commit an intentional tort, but may affect whether such intent existed

if def acts w/ the necessary intent to inflict certain intentional torts, but for some reason causes injury to a different victim than intended, the defendant's intent is "transferred" to the actual victim.

Only applies to assault, battery, false imprisonment, and trespass to lands or to chattels

def's act/force set in motion by that act must cause the plaintiff's injury

intentionally causing a harmful or offensive contact with a person of the other or a third person

• def must:
• 1) desire to cause an immediate harmful or offensive contact; or
• 2) know such contact is substantially certain to occur

• 1) contact that would inflict pain or impariment of any body function, or
• 2) if a reasonable person would regard it as offensive