LAW 122 Midterm: Law 122 review part 2: combination of textbook and lecture notes
16 Feb 2018
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Invasion of privacy: false imprisonment, trespass to land. It is enough if the defendant knew that particular act would have particular consequences. Assault and battery: the tort of assault occurs when the defendant intentionally causes the plaintiff to reasonably believe that offensive bodily contact is imminent. Several important points: the tort is not based on physical contact, the tort is designed to keep the peace by discouraging people from alarming others. It is enough if the plaintiff reasonably believed that bodily contact would occur: you may commit an assault by pointing a gun in my direction, even if the gun is not really loaded. It is enough that the defendant threatened some form of offensive contact. small to do any harm. The tort of battery consists of offensive bodily contact. Several points about battery definition: the requirement of "bodily contact" is not strictly applied.
