Exam 7: Intentional Torts

How does infliction of emotional distress differ from assault and battery? What types of situations are covered by infliction of emotional distress that would not be covered by assault and battery? Give an example.

Bodily contact intended as a compliment or as a joke cannot constitute a battery since there is no intent to offend.

For purposes of intentional torts, a person can have the intent to cause harm if the harm is substantially certain to occur even if he or she doesn't desire that such harm occur.

Harms or injuries that are tortious may be inflicted:

Business torts consist of:

Defenses to intentional torts include:

The same act can never be both a tort and a crime.

Consent, given by a person with capacity, negates the wrongfulness of an act.

Invasion of privacy consists of:

The Hometown News snapped a picture of Tom, a local teenager, as he was sleeping under a tree in the park on a warm spring day.If they print the picture on the front page of the paper:

A major difference between trespass to personal property and conversion is that the latter does not require intent to harm whereas trespass does.

Intent, for purposes of tort law, does not require an evil or hostile motive.

Only the intentional destruction of personal property and not the use of the property in an unauthorized manner can give rise to a cause of action for conversion.

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Disparagement differs from defamation in that defamation pertains to personal reputation, whereas disparagement pertains to economic interests.

The spoken threat, "If you don't give me your billfold and keys, I'll shoot you," cannot be an assault since it only involves words.

In an article about a prominent judge, a newspaper indicates the possibility that the judge had organized crime connections.The judge sues.The judge will have a cause of action:

The intentional dispossession or unauthorized use of the personal property of another is known as:

A person may employ deadly force to protect his property.

An absolute privilege exists to protect which of the following in defamation cases?