Intentional Torts

Front 1

Battery

Back 1

1. Causes harmful or offensive contact with another person

2.acts with intent to cause such contact or apprehension of contact.

Front 2

Assault.

Back 2

P's reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive bodily contact.

Caused by the defendants actions or threat

With the intent to cause apprehension of the contact.

Threat must be imminent

Mere words do not constitute assault.

Front 3

False Imprisonment

Back 3

When a person acts intending to confine or restrain another within boundaries fixed by the actor

Those actions directly or indirectly result in such confinement

The other is conscious of the confinement or is harmed by it.

Not bound if there is a reasonable means of escape.

Front 4

Shopkeepers privilege

Back 4

A shop keepers reasonable detention of someone suspected of shoplifting is a valid use of authority and not false imprisonment.

Front 5

Intentional interference with performance of a contract by third person.

Back 5

One who intentionally and improperly interferes with the performance of a contract

Between another and third party