BMGT 380 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: False Light, Interjection

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Business and Management
• Course: BMGT 380
• Professor: William Mc Clenahan

Document Summary

Assault: intenional atempt or ofer to cause a harmful of ofensive contact w/ another person, if that atempt or ofer causes a reasonable apprehension of imminent batery in the other persons" mind. But in assault it"s irrelevant if whether the threatened contact actually occurs. Key thing is the p. apprehension of a harmful or ofensive contact: doesn"t need to involve fear, might be described as a mental state. Must pertain to an anicipated batery that would be imminent or immediate. Defamaion (two forms, libel and slander) deined as: Intent to cause harmful or ofensive contact intent to cause apprehension that such contact is imminent. Invasion of privacy: refers to 4 disinct torts. Factors to be considered in determining whether a duty is owed to third persons (soldano vs. Degree of certainty that the p. sufered injury, 3. Closeness of the connecion b/w the d. conduct and the injury sufered 4.