Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: False Imprisonment

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
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Occupier: someone who has some degree of control over land or buildings on that land. Occupiers liability: liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property: liability at common law. Contractual entrant: any person who has paid for the right to enter the premises. Invitee: someone who comes onto the property to provide the occupier with a benefit. Licensee: any person whose presence is not a benefit to the occupier but not to which the occupier has no objection. Trespasser: someone who is not invited onto the property and whose presence is either unknown to the occupier or is objected by the occupier: liability under occupier" liability legislation. Provides a high duty of care equivalent to the negligence standard to be owed to entrants who are on the property with permission. Trespasser responsibility differs dependent on the statute.