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Torts - Coggle Diagram
Torts
Intentional Torts
Against Persons
Assault
Reasonable apprehension of immediate harmful/offenseive contact
Battery
Harmful/offensive contact w/ person or object connected
False Imprisonment
P confined/restrained to area against will and knows of confinement or is injured
IIED
Intent/reckless act that's extreme/outragous conduct that causes severe mental distress
Against Property
Trespass to land
intentional invasion of property
Trespass to chattel
Intentional act that interferes w/ P's chattel causing harm
Conversion
Intentional act that causes destruction/serious interference w/ P's chattel
Intent
Desires act to cause harmful result or knows with substantial certainty
Transferred intent
Only applies to:
Assault
Battery
False Imprisonment
Trespass to land
Trespass to chattel
Defenses
Defense of property
Asking D to leave required; deadly force not ok
Defense of others
Force reasonably necessary to protect against injury when reasoanble belief of imminent attack
Self-defense
Necessity
act reasonably necessary to avoid substantially greater harm to public, D, or D's more valuable property
Consent
Economic harm
Fraud/Misrepresentation
intentional assertion of a material false fact that P justifiably relies on and causes damage
Invasion of privacy
Intrusion on P's affairs/seclusion
Publication of facts placing P in false light
Appropriation of P's name/picture
Public disclosure of private facts about P
Defamation
Defamatory message of/concerning P that is communicated to 3rd party that damages reputation
Nuisance
Public
unreasonable interference w/ right common to general public
Private
activity that substantially/unreasonably interferes w/ P's use and enjoyment of land
Strict Liability
D liable for injury whether or not D exercised due care
Abnormally dangerous activity
Wild animals
Products liabiltiy
Negligence
Elements
Breach
Causation
Cause in fact
Proximate cause
Duty
Damages
Defenses
contributory negligence
Assumption of risk
Comparative fault