Torts - 2009 Oregon Bar

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7 Intentional torts

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1. Assault
2. Battery
3. False Imprisonment
4. IIED
5. Tresspass to Land
6. Trespass to Chattells/Conversion
7. Defamation

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Elements of Assault

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1. Reasonable apprehension
2. Of immediate battery
3. Intent
4. Causation

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Elements of Battery

Back 3

1. Harmful or offensive contact
2. With plaintiff's person
3. Intent
4. Causation

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Elements of False Imprisonment

Back 4

1. Act of restraint
2. To bounded area
3. Intent
4. Causation

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Elements of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

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1. Outrageous conduct
2. Severe distress
3. Intent or recklessness
4. Causation

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Elements of Trespass to Land

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1. Physical invasion
2. Land of another
3. Intent
4. Causation

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Elements of Trespass to Chattels and Conversion

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1. Interference with right to possession of personal property
2. Intent
3. Causation
4. Damages

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Difference between Trespass to Chattels and Conversion

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Major damage = Conversion and right to recover full value of property; Minor damage = Trespass to chattels and right to recover cost of repair

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Elements of defamation (non-1st Amendment)

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1. Defamatory statement
2. About the plaintiff
3. Publication (to a 3d party)
4. Injury to plaintiff's reputation

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Slander per se categories

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1. Business/professional
2. Crime involving moral turpitude
3. Loathsome disease
4. Imputing chastity of a woman