BATCH 2 - Terminologies

Question 1

A legal wrong, committed against person or property independents of a contract which renders the person who commits is liable for damages in a civil action.

Answer 1

Torts

Question 2

Examples of Torts

Answer 2

1. Assault and Battery
2. False Imprisonment or Illegal detention
3. Invasion of right to privacy and breach of confidentiality
4. Defamation

Question 3

The imminent threat of harmful or offensive bodily contact; and unjustifiable to touch another person or the threat to do so in such circumstances as to cause the other reasonably to believe that will be carried out.

Answer 3

Assault

Question 4

An intentional, unconsented touching of another person

Answer 4

Battery

Question 5

The unjustifiable detention of a person without a legal warrant within boundaries fixed by the defendant by an act or violation of duty intended to result in such confinement

Answer 5

False Imprisonment

Question 6

Character assassination, be it written or spoken

Answer 6

Defamation

Question 7

An oral defamation of a person by speaking unprivileged or false words by which his reputation is damaged.

Answer 7

Slander

Question 8

A printed defamation by written words, cartoons, or such representations that cause a person to be avoided, ridiculed, or held in contempt or tend to injure him in his work.

Answer 8

Libel