Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: False Imprisonment, Specific Performance, Malicious Falsehood
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Occupier: someone who has some degree of control over land or building on that land: an enterprise is an occupier, whether it is the owner, tenant, or temporary provider of a service. It is easily possible for there to be more than one occupier for a given space. Occupiers" liability: liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property. Duty owed is a warranty that the promises are as safe as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them. Invitee: any person who comes onto the property to provide the occupier with a benefit. Duty owed is a warning of any unusual danger of which he knows or ought to know. No requirement to warn of usual or common danger that ordinary reasonable persons can be expected to know and appreciate. Licensee: any person whose presence is not a benefit to the occupier but to which is no objection.