Introduction to Tort Law

• defined as a wrong for which the law will provide a remedy, most often in the form of money damages.

Type of tort that arises from intentional wrong acts

Type of tort that arises from unintentional acts or carelessness

Type of tort where there may be no fault at all, but tort law will sometimes require a defendant to make up for the victim’s losses even where the defendant was not careless and did not intend to do harm

the defendant, the one committing the tort, who intentionally injures another is often called this.

What are the three dimensions of tort?

What are the types of damages sought that are  expressed in money terms, including replacement of property destroyed, compensation for lost wages, reimbursement for medical expenses, and dollars that are supposed to approximate the pain that is suffered?

What type of damages are awarded whose purpose is to punish the defendant's actions, particularly in aggravated situations?

What are the three prime examples of injuries that ake up intentional torts?

• The threat of immediate harm or offense of contact or any act that would arouse reasonable apprehension of imminent harm is called what?

 Unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with another person that causes injury is called what?

 If a person is restrained in a room or a car or even if his or her movements are restricted while walking down the street, a tort can be filed for what?

When mental distress occurs from an intentional act, whether or not it causes physical injury, what type of tort might be filed?

• Intentionally going on land that belongs to someone else or putting something on someone else’s property and refusing to remove it may result in this type of tort.

A tort regarding Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations can be established by proving which four elements?