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Torts - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Assault, battery, false imprisonment, trespass to land or chattels
  - - - reasonable apprehension of immediate harmful or offensive conduct
      - overt act required
      - Fear not required
    - - Harmful or offensive contact with victim
    - - intentional or reckless
      - extreme and outrageous
      - severe mental distress
    - - intentional act binding or restraining plaintiff against will
      - requires the plaintiff to know of the confinement or be injured
  - - - physical invasion of property
      - mistake not a defense
    - - interference with tangible property or intangible property with physical representation
      - mistake not a defense
    - - destruction or serious interference with chattel
      - mistake not a defense
- - - - defamatory message
      - of or concerning plaintiff
      - publication
    - - Libel
      - Slander
      - Slander per se
    - - general
        
        no proof of damages required
      - pecuniary or special
        
        quantifiable money losses, must prove for slander and libel
      - punitive
        
        need to show malice
    - - Truth
      - Privileges
      - Consent
- - - - standard of conduct
      - duty of care
      - exceptions
      - duty to act
      - no duty to control others
        
        except for parents with kids and supervisors with employees
    - - negligence per se
        
        criminal
      - res ispa loquitor
        
        particular injury
    - - Cause in fact
      - Proximate cause
    - - no nominal damages
      - economic and non economic