Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Malicious Falsehood, Product Liability, Implied Consent

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

Business activity whether it involves generating electricity, cutting hair, filing tax returns, or selling automobiles involves interactions that may ultimately have a negative impact on others and their property (ex. Person slips on banana peel in grocery store) Tort actions can be divided between those that arise because a business occupies a property and those that arise because of actual business operations. Tort actions may arise in relationship to property in a number of ways, most commonly when the occupier of the property harms others. An occupier is generally defined as someone who has some degree of control over land or buildings on that land. Occupier: enterprise conducting business on property (owner, tenant, temporary provider of a service). Main torts to occupation of property: occupiers liability, nuisance, and trespass. Occupiers" liability describes the liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property.