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Criminal law involves must have what? - ✔✔Intent
Criminal law involves/must have what? - ✔✔Intent
List the Intentional Torts - ✔✔Assault, Battery, Conversion, Defamation, Emotional Distress, False
Imprisonment, Invasion of privacy, Nuisance, Trespass
Assault is always _________ while battery is always ________ - ✔✔Emotional, Physical
Components of assault - ✔✔Intent, act, must produce reasonable fear or apprehension (fear),
immediate, harmful/offensive contact, results in an injury
All intentional torts require - ✔✔Intent, act, and damage/injury
Can speech be an assault? - ✔✔No
Components of battery - ✔✔Intent, Act, Harmful/Offensive contact, Injury
Conversion is another word for what? - ✔✔Civil theft, stealing, taking personal property, etc.
Components of conversion - ✔✔Intentional act, taking of another person's property, results in an injury.
Defamation deals with what? - ✔✔Speech (written or oral)
Components of defamation - ✔✔Intentional act, false statement of fact, published or communicated to
third parties, results in an injury
, Verbal defamation is called what? - ✔✔Slander
Written defamation is called what? - ✔✔Libel
Components of emotional distress - ✔✔Intentional act, extremely outrageous, results in injury
Components of false imprisonment - ✔✔Intentional Act, Unjustifiably detaining or restricting the free
movement of someone, results in an injury (usually mental), can be due to force or threats of force.
Invasion of privacy 4 torts - ✔✔Appropriation of another's name or likeness. Unreasonable intrusion into
another person's seclusion. Public disclosure of private facts. Casting another in a false light.
How is "casting another in a false light" different than defamation. - ✔✔"Casting another in a false light"
is visual only. Involves things like Photoshop.
Nuisance components - ✔✔Intentional act, unreasonable interference with another's use or enjoyment
of their own real estate.
Trespass components - ✔✔Intentional act, going on or remaining on another person's property without
their permission.
Both Nuisance and Trespass deal with people's... - ✔✔Real estate/Property
5 Business Torts - ✔✔1. Intentional interference with a contract of another.
2. Intentional interference with the business relations of another.
3. Disparagement.
4. Fraud.
5. Infringement.