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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- A statute is repealed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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