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18 Cards in this Set
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Assault?
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placing another in fear of harmful or offensive touching.
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Battery?
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Harmful or offensive touching of another.
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Comparative Negligence?
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System in which damages are awarded in proportion to the plaintiff's negligence.
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Contributory Negligence?
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System in which recovery is barred if the injury is partly the result of carelessness by the plaintiff.
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Conversion?
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Wrongfully depriving another of possession of personal property.
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Defamation?
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Injurt of a person's reputation by false statements, oral or written.
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False Imprisonment?
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Depriving a person of freedom of movement without consent and without privlege.
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Fraud?
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Intentional misrepresentation of fact, relied upon by another to her or his injury.
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Intentional Torts?
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Offenses in which the defendant intended either the injury or the act.
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Invasion of Privacy?
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Unlawful intrusion into another's private life causing mental or emotional injury.
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Libel
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Written defamation.
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Negligence
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Causing injury by failing to act as a reasonable person.
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Proximate Cause
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Reasonably foreseeable cause of injury.
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Punitive Damages
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Added damages intended to punish and make an example of the defendant.
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Slander
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Oral defamation.
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Strict Liability
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Responsibility for injury refardless of negligence or intent.
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Tort
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An offense against an individual.
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Trespass
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Wrongful interference with the use of another's property.
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