MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intentional Tort, False Imprisonment, Punitive Damages

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joe Radocchia

Document Summary

Tort: any harm or injury caused by one person to another other than through breach of contract. To provide compensation for people who are injured by actions of others: trespass to land, deceit or fraud, negligence- most seen in businesses. Main goal is to determine if an injured person should be compensated or if the person causing harm should pay for it. Intentional tort: deliberate or intentional act: false imprisonment: unlawful detention or restraint coercion by psychological needs, battery: intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact. The objective of tort law is to compensate. Person who committed crime is defendant or accused. When injured brings legal action; called civil action: injured is the plaintiff, criminal is defendant. Easier to prove a civil case than criminal. Primary: due to one"s own personal wrongdoing. Vicarious: due to the relationship that someone has to the personal who commits the tort, ex.