Unit 9; Law

Intentional threat, show of force, or movement that causes a reasonable fear of, or an actual physical contact.

• Assault

• Battery

• Conversion

• Libel

Intentional. unlawful physical contact inflicted on one person by another without consent.

• Nominal Damages

• Assault

• Battery

• Libel

Money the court requires a defendant to pay a winning plaintiff to makeup for harm caused

• Nominal Damages

• False Imprisonment

• Libel

• Compensatory Damages

Taking or controlling of another person's property without consent

• Injunction

• Defamination

• Conversion

• Libel

Written or spoken expression about a person that is false and has damages

• Defamation

• Libel

• Intentional Torts

• Injunction

Intentional or wrongful confinement of another person against his or her will

• Nominal

• Libel

• False Imprisonment

• Conversion

Court order requiring a person to do, or refrain from doing a particular act

• Compensatory

• Injunction

• Imprisonment

• Libel

defendant purposely engages in an action that causes emotional harm

• Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

• Libel

• Sadness

• Nominal

action taken deliberately to harm another person

• libel

• Intentional Torts

• Nominal

written expression about a person that is false and damages that persons reputation

• Libel

• Conversion

• Assault