BUS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Implied Consent, Willful Blindness, False Imprisonment
3 Apr 2016
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Eg, sneezing at a painting, the tort would be trespass to chattel (moveable forms of property) You hurt someone in a sport but it was rules. This is no tort b/c there was consent, everyone played voluntarily, they expect injuries and it"s the rules of the game, stealing the ball but punching someone is not consent. The moment you realize that you are under threat and could get imminent damage, its assault but if there is bodily contact its battery. As long as u have a reasonable belief of imminent. Injurious falsehood if u spread false rumors about someone"s house which drops the market value. Deceit, defamation and injurious falsehood (lies torts. ) Trespass to property throwing a ball to ur neighbors yard, even if it wasn"t intentional, its still trespass. Private law- intentional torts are very low, you don"t have to be successful, it wasn"t by.
