Tort Law

A wrong or injury inflicted upon another individual.

• Crime
• Tort

Occurs when the defendant acts with the intention of engaging in a specific act that ultimately results in an injury.

• Negligent tort
• Strict-liability tort
• Intentional tort

Occurs when the defendant fails to act in a responsible way and thereby subjects other people to an unreasonable risk of harm.

• Intentional tort
• Negligent tort
• Strict-liability tort

Occurs when the defendant takes an action that is inherently dangerous and cannot be undertaken safely.

• Intentional tort
• Negligent tort
• Strict-liability tort

Occurs when one person places another in fear or apprehension of an immediate, offensive bodily contact

• battery
• assault
• defamation
• slander

An intentional, unwanted, offensive bodily contact

• assault
• battery
• defamation
• libel

The intentional publication (or communication to a third party) of a false statement harmful to an individual's reputation

• defamation
• consent
• defense of property
• self defense

Responding to the force of another with comparable force to defend yourself

• consent
• self-defense
• defense of others
• defense of property

Defamation that is spoken 

• libel
• slander

Defamation that is written

• libel
• slander