Torts Review Flashcards

These flashcards cover key concepts in tort law, including terms and definitions relevant to the subject.

A prima facie case of battery requires __ to make a contact, conduct that causes such a contact, and that contact must be harmful or offensive.

intent

Assault is the intentional causing of __ of an imminent, and harmful or offensive, contact.

apprehension

The intentional infliction of __ or mental distress caused by the defendant’s extreme and outrageous conduct.

emotional distress

A harmful touching is a touching that causes __ or bodily damage.

pain

Transferring intent occurs when the person harmed is not the one whom the harm was __.

directed

False imprisonment occurs where the defendant intentionally causes the plaintiff to be __ to a bounded area.

confined

Negligence occurs when the defendant’s conduct falls below the __ of care of a reasonable person under the circumstances.

standard

Under the Cardozo majority rule, a duty is owed to those in the __ of danger.

zone

Strict liability may be imposed in cases involving __ activities, animals, and defective products.

dangerous

A joint enterprise occurs when individuals collaborate for a __ purpose and have a mutual right of control.

common

Defamation refers to __ language published to a third party that harms the plaintiff’s reputation.

defamatory