BLW 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: False Imprisonment, False Light, Kfc
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All the torts in chapter 7 or intent law. Tort law purpose: to compensate a person who suffers an injury and to place the cost of that injury on the person who caused the injury. False imprisonment intentional confinement of a person within a bounded area without giving that person without giving that person the means to escape. Intentional infliction of emotional and mental distress conduct that is so outrageous that causes the plaintiff to suffer emotionally words are not enough unless said publicly with many witnesses brown vs. kfc. Defamation intentional false statement made by the defendant to a third person that causes the plaintiff to suffer in their community oral defamation is slander written is libel only sue the originator easy to defend truth retraction. Trespass to land enter, remain, or deposit without permission thats a trespass. Nuisance you use your property in a way that adversely affects the use of my property.
