LE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Transferred Intent, Tort, Reasonable Person
22 Oct 2016
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Torts- civil wrong, other than a break of contact for which courts have allowed a remedy. The defendant is found liable in tort cases. Negligence: fails to act as a reasonable person. Strict liability torts: when the person at fault is liable without fault or intent, dangerous actions animals, dynamite. Same act can be both criminal and civil repercussions. Civil assault-intent to cause apprehension about an immediate physical contact: does not have to be physical contact because of apprehension. Civil battery- an intent to cause an offensive or harmful physical contact. Examples: coming at you with a baseball bat, spit at you, unwanted kissing. If you miss a punch still liable because of intend. Transferred intent- the example where a person ducks and the person behind them gets hit. A certain situation can have assault or battery or both. Self-defense- demonstrating the force necessary to repel the incoming force.
