PLA 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Intentional Tort, False Light, False Imprisonment
13 Jun 2016
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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
• Restatement of the law of torts, second
o An authoritative secondary source, written by a group of legal
scholars, summarizing the existing common law, as well as suggesting
what the law should be
• Assault
o An intentional act that creates a reasonable apprehension of an
immediate harmful or offensive physical contact
• Battery
o An intentional act that creates a harmful or offensive physical contact
• Transferred intent
o A legal fiction that if a person directs a tortious action toward A but
instead harms B, the intent to act against A is transferred to B
• False imprisonment
o It occurs whenever one person, through force or the threat of force,
unlawfully detains another person against his or her will
• Defamation
o The publication of false statements that harms a person's reputation
• Slander
o Spoken defamation
• Libel
o Written defamation
• Defamation per se
o Remarks considered to be so harmful that they are automatically
viewed as defamatory
• Malice
o Making a defamatory remark either knowing the material was false or
acting with a "reckless disregard" for whether or not it was true
• Invasion of privacy
o An intentional tort that covers a variety of situations, including
disclosure, intrusion, appropriation, and false light
• Disclosure
o The intentional publication of embarrassing private affairs
• Intrusion
o The intentional unjustified encroachment into another persons
private activities
• Appropriation
o An intentional unauthorized exploitive use of another persons
personality, name, or picture for the defendants benefit
• False light
o The intentional false portrayal of someone in a way that would be
offensive to a reasonable person
• Intentional infliction of emotional distress
o An intentional tort that occurs through an extreme and outrageous act
that causes severe emotional distress
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