Torts- Intentional Torts

1. act by defendant 2. Intent 3. Causation

1. Specific Intent 2. General Intent

1. assault 2. battery 3. false imprisonment 4. trespass to lan trespass to chattel

1. act harmful or offensive contact 2. intent 3. causation

1. act reasonable apprehension of immediate harmful or offensive contact

1. confines or restrains bounded area 2. intent 3. causation

1. physical barriers 2. physical force 3. direct threats of force 4. indirect threats of force 5. failure to provide means of escape 6. invalid use of legal authority

1. act extreme and outrageous conduct 2. intent to severe recklessness 3. causation 4. damages

Kid kicked other kid in class act was intentional the extent of the harm need not be foreseeable

Five year old boy pulls chair out. action would have been for the purpose and intent of causing contact with the ground

Battery: Harmful Contact 1. he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the person 2. a harmful contact with the person of the other directly or indirectly

Intent 1. person acts with the purpose of producing the consequence 2. person acts knowing that the consequence is substatntially certain to result

Piano trainer injured woman on back. Offensive contact

Mentally impaired man attacked plaintiff only required mental state was the intention to make contact

Transferred intent: hit third person by stick aimed at first person