QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Criminal law involves must have what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Intent
Criminal law involves/must have what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Intent
List the Intentional Torts - CORRECT ANSWERS Assault, Battery,
Conversion, Defamation, Emotional Distress, False Imprisonment, Invasion of
privacy, Nuisance, Trespass
Assault is always _________ while battery is always ________ - CORRECT
ANSWERS Emotional, Physical
Components of assault - CORRECT ANSWERS Intent, act, must
produce reasonable fear or apprehension (fear), immediate, harmful/offensive
contact, results in an injury
All intentional torts require - CORRECT ANSWERS Intent, act, and
damage/injury
Can speech be an assault? - CORRECT ANSWERS No
Components of battery - CORRECT ANSWERS Intent, Act,
Harmful/Offensive contact, Injury
Conversion is another word for what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Civil
theft, stealing, taking personal property, etc.
, Components of conversion - CORRECT ANSWERS Intentional act,
taking of another person's property, results in an injury.
Defamation deals with what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Speech (written
or oral)
Components of defamation - CORRECT ANSWERS Intentional act,
false statement of fact, published or communicated to third parties, results in an
injury
Verbal defamation is called what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Slander
Written defamation is called what? - CORRECT ANSWERS Libel
Components of emotional distress - CORRECT ANSWERS Intentional
act, extremely outrageous, results in injury
Components of false imprisonment - CORRECT ANSWERS 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 - CORRECT ANSWERS 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. - CORRECT
ANSWERS "Casting another in a false light" is visual only. Involves
things like Photoshop.