MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: False Imprisonment, Qualified Privilege, Implied Consent

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

Document Summary

Occupier: someone who has some degree of control over land or buildings on that land. Contractual entrant: any person who has paid (contracted) for the right to enter the premises. Invitee: any person who comes into the property to provide the occupier with a benefit. Licensee: any person whose presence is not a benefit to the occupier but to which the occupier has no objection. Trespasser: any person who is not invited onto the property and whose presence is ether unknown to the occupier or is objected to by the occupier. Nuisance: any activity on an occupier"s property that unreasonably and substantially interferes with the neighbour"s rights to enjoyment of the neighbour"s own property. Trespass to land: wrongful interference with someone"s possession of land. False imprisonment: unlawful detention or physical restraint or coercion by psychological means. Legal authority: the authority by law to deign under section 494 of the criminal code.