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Torts: Intentional Torts Essentials

Battery, assault, confinement, and intent.

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Question 1

Battery in tort law generally requires what?

  • Intentional harmful or offensive contact
  • A broken contract
  • Publication to a third party
  • A zoning violation
Question 2

Assault protects against what kind of harm?

  • Reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact
  • Disappointed economic expectations only
  • Copyright infringement
  • Failure to file taxes
Question 3

False imprisonment requires confinement within what kind of boundaries?

  • Fixed or bounded limits without lawful privilege
  • Only a prison cell owned by the state
  • Any uncomfortable public place
  • A breached lease
Question 4

Transferred intent can apply when what occurs?

  • Intent aimed at one victim or tort results in another covered tort or victim
  • A contract is assigned to a third party
  • A judge changes venue
  • A statute is repealed
Question 5

Trespass to land protects what interest?

  • Exclusive possession of real property
  • Freedom from defamatory statements
  • The right to jury selection
  • A patent license
Question 6

Conversion is best understood as serious interference with what?

  • Another person's personal property
  • A legislative committee
  • An interstate compact
  • A criminal indictment
Question 7

Consent is often important in intentional torts because it can do what?

  • Negate liability when valid and within scope
  • Automatically create punitive damages
  • Replace personal jurisdiction
  • Make negligence impossible in all cases
Question 8

Intent in intentional torts usually means purpose or what alternative?

  • Substantial certainty that the consequence will occur
  • Mere forgetfulness
  • Any accidental result
  • A preference for settlement

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