LAW 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Product Liability, Summary Judgment, Implied Warranty
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There"s not really such a thing as a business torts, just torts that: businesses don"t like torts because it is a way they can get come up in business crushed. Fraud: see lightle v. real estate commission. Lightle is a real estate agent and represent leigh and wants to sell her a house. Williams puts an offer on the house. Seeley asks lightle if they can buy the house and asks if its available. Lightle says yes seeley thinks she bought it and cancels her lease and utilities. Lightle made her lease the backup contract: fraud is the deliberate misconception, if the parties have no relationship there is no fraud, elements you need to prove. You knew or had reason to know that the statement i"m telling you is false. The person who receives the information justifiable relies on that information. Eventually seeley got the house but initially they did not tell the truth.
