MANAGMNT 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: The Castle Doctrine, Deadly Force, Comparative Negligence
26 Dec 2016
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Assault: putting someone in fear of imminent unwanted bodily contact. Battery: intentional, offensive, unwanted touching: defenses to assault and battery. Can never use deadly force in defense of property. You consent to play touch football, your pinky is broken, but you consented to play the game and it was within the parameters of the ga(cid:373)e, so (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t sue. Defense has to be reasonable under the circumstances. Deadly force can only be used in response to deadly force. Only in defense of self or others. Deadly force: only force that may reasonably lead to death or serious bodily injury: obligation to flee. You have an obligation to flee before using deadly force if it"s reaso(cid:374)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) possi(cid:271)le. Whe(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"re i(cid:374) (cid:455)our o(cid:449)(cid:374) ho(cid:373)e, (cid:455)ou do (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) obligation to flee: i(cid:374) massa(cid:272)husetts, (cid:862)assault a(cid:374)d (cid:271)atter(cid:455)(cid:863) is o(cid:374)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)ed thing. For the purposes of this class, we think of them separately: it has to be intentional to be battery.
