Chapter 10: Torts Affecting Business

The intentional creation of immediate apprehension of injury or lack of physical safety

Negligence doctrine that bars the recovery of damages by an injured party on the ground that such a party acted with actual or constructive knowledge of the hazard causing the injury

The cause of action for physical contact that is not consented to and is offensive

The actual cause of an even; the instrument that is the responsible force for the occurrence of a certain event. A required element of tort

A doctrine that compared the plaintiff's contributory fault with the defendant's fault and allows the jury to reduce the plaintiff's verdict by the percentage of the plaintiff's fault

Usually awarded in breach-of-contract cases to pay for a party's losses that are a direct and foreseeable result of the other party's breach. The award of these damages is designed to place the non-beaching party in the same position as if the contract had been performed

A failure to use reasonable care by the plaintiff in a negligence suit

An unlawful exercise of dominion and control other another's property that substantially interferes with property rights

The publication of anything injurious to the good name or reputation of another

A defect arising when a product does not meet society's expectation for a safely designed product

Statutes adopted to many states that impose strict liability upon tavern owners for injuries to third parties caused by their intoxicated patrons

A legal obligation imposed by the law

The tort of an intentional, unjust confinement of a non consenting person who knows of the confinement

A false representation of fact made with the intent to deceive another that is justifiably relied upon to the injury of that person

An intentional tort of the emotions that caused both mental distress and physical symptoms as resulted in the defendant's outrageous behavior

A statement of untruth that causes injury or damage to the party against whom it was made

A legal doctrine indicating that parties meant to do what they did

The tort of causing another to break a contract

A tort based on misappropriation of name or likeness, intrusion upon physical solitude or public disclosure of objectionable, private information

A defamatory written statement communicated to a third party

An action for recovery of damages that have resulted to person, property, or reputation from previous unsuccessful civil or criminal proceeding that were prosecuted without probable cause and with malice

A person's failure to exercise reasonable care that foreseeably causes inury

A defect arising when a product does not meet its manufacture's own standards

In tort law, a legal requirement that an act foreseeably causes an inury

Monetary damages in excess a compensatory reward, usually granted only intentional tort's cases where defendant's conduct involved some element deserving punishment

An oral defamatory statement communicated to a third person

A defense that the defendant's product or practice was compatible with the current state of technology available at the time of the event in question

A statute that applies to product liability cases. It prohibits initiation of litigation involving products more than a certain number of years following their manufacture

The doctrine under which a party may be required to respond in tort damages without regard to such party's use of due care

A civil wrong other than a breach of contract

An act done in an unlawful manner so as to cause injury to another; an unauthorized entry upon another's land

Extremely unreasonable behavior that causes injury