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Intentional Tort Definitions
1L Torts
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12/11/2011

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Intent
Definition
General – substantial certainty that an act will do the thing
Specific – actual knowledge that an act will do the thing
Term
Battery
Definition
intentionally acting to cause harmful or offensive contact with the other or an imminent apprehension of such contact and a harmful or offensive contact with the other person directly or indirectly results
Term
Assault
Definition
he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with another or an imminent apprehension of such a contact and the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension
Term
False Imprisonment
Definition
1) he acts intending to confine the other or a third person with bounds fixed by him, AND
2) resulting in the confinement of the other, AND
3) the confinee is conscious or harmed by the confinement
Term
Trepass to land
Definition
intentionally on another's land
Term
Trespass to chattel
Definition
1) dispossessing another of the chattel or using or intermeddling with the chattel in the possession of another

2) liable only if - disposes the other of the chattel, condition or value is impaired, the possessor is deprived of the use of the chattel for a substantial time, body harm is caused to the possessor by the non use of the chattel
Term
Intentional Infliction of Emo. Distress
Definition
Extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes sever emotionally distress to another if bodily harm results
Term
Conversion
Definition
Intentional exercise of dominion or control of a chattel which so seriously interferes with the right of another to control it that the actor may justly be required to pay the other the full value of the chattel.
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