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BL lesson 1.03
Lesson 1.03: Understanding Civil Laws
Term | Definition |
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Actual Harm | The victim suffers an injury, has property damage destroyed, or loses a lot of money. |
Alternative Dispute Resolution | Occurs when parties try and resolve a disagreement outside of the usual court system. |
Arbitration | Giving the power to settle their dispute to a third party. |
Advantage | |
Assault | Occurs when one person intentionally puts another in reasonable fear of an offensive or harmful bodily contact. |
Assumption of Risk | A defense raised when the plaintiff knew of the risk involved and still took the chance of being injured. |
Battery | The harmful or offensive touching of another. |
Breach | When you breach or break your duty to another person. |
Causation | Means that breach of duty caused the injury. |
Comparative Negligence | A defense that is raised when the carelessness of each party compared to the carelessness of the other party's. |
Contributory | A defense whenever the defendant can show that the victim did something that helped cause his or her own injuries. |
Negligence | |
Conversion | When property is stolen, destroyed, or used in a manner that is inconsistent with an owners rights. |
Court Injections | Is a court order that prevents a party from performing a specific act and may be temporary of permanent. |
Damages | Is a payment recovered in court by a person who has suffered an injury. |
Defamation | A false statement that injures a persons' reputation or good name. |
Duty | The obligation to use a reasonable standard of care to prevent injury to others. |
False Imprisonment | The intentional confinement of a person against the person's will and without the lawful ability to do so. |
Fraud | Occurs when there is an intentional misrepresentation of an existing important fact which causes the victim to give up a right or something of value. |
Interference with Contracts | If a third party encourages a breach in any way, then that third party may be liable in tort. |
Invasion of Privacy | Uninvited intrusion into a persons' personal relationships and activities. |
Mediation | |
Money Damages | |
Negligence | A tort that results when one person carelessly injures another. It is an accidental tort and requires no intent. |
Proximate Cause | When it is reasonably foreseeable that a breach of duty will result in an injury. |
Punitive Damages | |
Tort | A private wrong committed by one person against another. |
Trespass to Land | Entry onto the property of another without consent. |
Vicarious Liability | When one person is liable for the torts of another. |