Torts Review

The reasonable person in tort law refers to a

• Well-meaning person

• Person who has graduated from law school

• Ideal version of a typical, average person in similar position of the defendant

• Person who has been identified by the court as reasonable

divides losses based on the degree to which each person is at fault.

• comparative negligence

• contributory negligence

• duty

• proximate cause

intentional threat to physically or offensively injure another

• battery

• damages

• assault

• compensation

Sammi locks her friend in the car as a joke and is able to keep her in the car for 20 minutes without her friend being able to get out. Sammi has committed what tort?

• false imprisonment

• conversion

• slander

• battery

a violation of the responsibility of care owed to others

• breach of duty

• counterclaim

• damages

• proximate cause

Which of the following is NOT an element needed to prove negligence?

• duty

• breach

• intent

• causation

prevents a plaintiff from recovering damages from a defendant because the plaintiff is also at fault

• contributory negligence

• comparative negligence

• assumption of risk

• none of these

Damages paid to cover medical expenses or loss of work days are considered ______________ damages.

• Compensatory

• Nominal

• Punitive

What are the 3 types of Torts?

• Strict Liabilty

• Fraud

• International

• Negligence

Taking another person's property without their permission is _____?

• Fraud

• Stealing

• conversion

• Misappropriation