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Civil key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Actual Harm | The victim suffers an injury or gets their stuff messed with like destroyed, or gets some money stolen |
| Alternative Dispute Resolution | When a party tries to solve the disagreement outside of the court |
| Arbitration | Giving the power to settle the problems with an outside third party |
| Advantage | Arbitration advantage results in a fair solution mainly because they get an unbiased objective viewpoint |
| Assault | You strike someone or do battery to them, inflict injury upon another person |
| Assumption of Risk | When the defense side raised when the plaintiff knew the risk but still took their chances of being injured |
| Battery | Unlawful touching or forceful of another person using a variety methods. Bring injury onto them |
| Breach | When you break what your duty was to another person |
| Causation | When that breach of the duty results in injury |
| Comparative Negligence | Defense that is raised when each party has carelessness and it is compared |
| Contributory Negligence | When the defense has proof that the victim did something that would cause the injuries that happened |
| Conversion | When the property is stolen, destroyed, or is really just used outside of what the owner wants |
| Court Injunctions | A court order that prevents a party from doing an act, and it can be permanent |
| Damages | Payment that is recovered in court by a person who got injured |
| Defamation | A false statement that would hurt someone's rep or good name that they built up, similar to slander |
| Duty | obligation to use a reasonable standard to prevent some injuries to others |
| False Imprisonment | When you want to intentional put someone in confinement against the person's will or without the lawful ability to be able to do it |
| Fraud | Happens when there is an intentional fudging of a very important fact that causes a victim to give up a fact or something of value |
| Interference with Contracts | When a third party encourages a breach in a contact of any way, and the said third party can be liable for it |
| Invasion of Privacy | Uninvited intrusion into somebodies person life |
| Mediation | When parties want to have a mediator to help come to a solution |
| Money Damages | When you steal or damage somebodies money in anyway |
| Negligence | A tort that usually results when one person can be careless to another person, like a mom forgetting about a baby |
| Proximate Cause | When it is reasonably seen that a breach of the duty will result in injury |
| Punitive Damages | Damages that exceed a small amount and can be resolved with money, like more hard and damaging damages |
| Tort | A private wrong committed by one person against another person |
| Trespass to Land | Entry onto somebody's land without their consent |
| Vicarious Liability | When one person can tort another person |
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