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2.03 BL
2.03 Vocabulary - Business Law
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assumption of Risk | knowing of risk and still taking the chance. |
| Comparative Negligence | negligence of each party is compared. |
| Contributory Negligence | plaintiff helps cause his or her injuries. |
| Defamation | injuring another’s reputation |
| False Imprisonment | false arrest. |
| Intentional Tort | know and desire the consequences of your act. |
| Invasion of Privacy | interfering with a person’s right to be left alone. |
| Libel | false statement made in writing. |
| Negligence | Failure to exercise a degree of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in those circumstances. |
| Nuisance | anything that interferes with the enjoyment of life. |
| Proximate Cause | legal connection between unreasonable conduct and the resulting harm. |
| Proximate Cause | something that produces a result, without it the result would no have occurred. |
| Slander | false statement made orally. |
| Strict Liability | participation in ultrahazardous activity |
| Tort | One person’s interference with another person’s rights, either through intent, negligence, or strict liability. |
| Tortfeasor | person who committed a tort. |
| Trespass | wrongful damage to or interference with the property of another. |
| Unintentional Tort | lacks the determination of mind. |