To attack physically; to threaten or attempt to cause injury to someone else. When contact occurs as well, the offense is often called assault and battery.

The tort of wrongfully taking another person’s property and assuming ownership of it or preventing the owner from using it.

An intentional publication or public statement of false information that damages someone’s reputation.

A party to a lawsuit; a plaintiff or defendant.

Tort liability imposed regardless of actual fault on a person or company that sells a product for injuries due to defective or dangerous products;

To enter or disturb property owned by someone else without the owner’s permission.

wrongful and intentional physical touching that causes offense and possibly, though not necessarily, injury

Money awarded as compensation for injury or loss.

The tort of detaining someone intentionally and without justification.

Failure to use the proper care in doing something, i.e., the amount of care that an ordinarily prudent person would use under the same circumstances.

A private injury or wrong; a violation of a socially recognized duty owed to a plaintiff that results in injury to the plaintiff; torts can be caused intentionally, through negligence, or under strict liabilit

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Unit 4 Vocab

Civil Law


assault:	To attack physically; to threaten or attempt to cause injury to someone else. When contact occurs as well, the offense is often called assault and battery.
conversion:	The tort of wrongfully taking another person’s property and assuming ownership of it or preventing the owner from using it.
defamation:	An intentional publication or public statement of false information that damages someone’s reputation.
litigant:	A party to a lawsuit; a plaintiff or defendant.
strict liability:	Tort liability imposed regardless of actual fault on a person or company that sells a product for injuries due to defective or dangerous products;
trespass:	To enter or disturb property owned by someone else without the owner’s permission.
battery:	wrongful and intentional physical touching that causes offense and possibly, though not necessarily, injury
damages:	Money awarded as compensation for injury or loss.
false imprisonment:	The tort of detaining someone intentionally and without justification.
negligence:	Failure to use the proper care in doing something, i.e., the amount of care that an ordinarily prudent person would use under the same circumstances.
tort:	A private injury or wrong; a violation of a socially recognized duty owed to a plaintiff that results in injury to the plaintiff; torts can be caused intentionally, through negligence, or under strict liabilit

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