Criminal & Civil Law Vocab

Where the defendant had intent or purpose to inflict the injury

• Tort

• Negligence

• Intentional Tort

• Crime

•A false statement ruins a person’s good name or reputation

• Defamation

• Battery

• Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

• Conversion

•Illegal possession or use of another’s property, passing it off as their own property, whether intentional or otherwise.

• Fraud

• Defamation

• Conversion

• Robbery

Parties who breach a contract must pay damages under the contract law for injury suffered by the other party.

• Fraud

• Interference with contractual relations

• Conversion

• Causation

•When there is intentional or a recklessly made misrepresentation of an existing fact while entering a contract.

• Defamation

• Conversion

• Fraud

• Interference with contractual relations

If both parties are found negligent neither can collect damages.

• Assumption of Risk

• Procedural Defense

• Contributory Negligence

• Comparative Negligence

if one party is more negligent that the other party, they are rewarded damages in proportion to their negligent acts.

• Comparative Negligence

• Contributory Negligence

• Procedural Defense

• Substantive Defense

Both parties are aware of the danger but decide to subject themselves to the risk.

• Contributory Awareness

• Assumption of Risk

• Trespassing

• Conversion

A harm that is recognized by the law

• Crime

• Causation

• Duty

• Injury

Proof that the breach caused the injury

• Conversion

• Criminal Intent

• Causation

• Breach of Duty