Term | Definition |
Animal Cases | Tort litigation involving injuries or damages caused by animals, including livestock, domesticated wild animals, household pets, or farm animals; these cases fall under strict liability tort law. |
Assault | An act that creates in a person immediate fear of an attempted battery. |
Assumption of risk | The legal rule under which a person may not recover for an injury he or she receives when voluntarily exposing him- or herself to a known danger. |
Battery | A harmful offensive touching of another person |
Comparative Negligence Doctrine | The rule under which negligence is measured by percentage and damages are diminished in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to the plaintiff. |
Consent | Agreement; voluntary acceptance of wish of another |
Contributory Negligence | The rule under which negligence is measured by percentage and damages are diminished in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to the plaintiff. |
Conversion | Taking property that belongs to another and using it as ones own. |
Defense of Property | Affirmative defense in criminal or tort law when force was used to protect ones property. |
Extrahazardous Activity | An activity that carries the likelihood of causing some types of damage even if reasonable care is exercised. |
False Imprisonment | Holding a person against his or her will without legal authority. |
Intentional Tort | Wrong perpetrated by one who intends to break the law. |
Libel | In torts, damage to a persons reputation by written or published information. |
Malpractice | Professional misconduct or unreasonable lack of skill; a violation of a standard of care. |
Negligence | Failure to use care that a reasonable and prudent person would use under similar circumstances. |
Privilege | A benefit or advantage to certain persons beyond the advantages of other persons e.h, and exemption, immunity, power, etc |
Products Liability | Legal responsibility of manufacturers and sellers to buyers, users, and bystanders for damages or injuries, suffered because of defects in goods. |
Recapture of Chattels | A defense to personal injury claims that asserts the defendant was attempting to recover his or her, or applying the property will be lost, removed, or injured. |
Self-defense | The right of a person to defend his or her person, property, home or family against anyone who intends to commit a forcible felony. |
Slander | Damages to persons reputation by spoken information |
Strict Liability | Concept applied by the courts in product liability cases that when a manufacturer presents its goods for sale it is representing that the goods are suitable for their intended use. |
Torts | A private or civil wrong or injury for which the court provides a remedy through an action for damages. |
Trespass to land | Illegal entry upon the land of another. |