Business chapter seven terms
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| Tort | show 🗑
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| Tortfeasor | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when the tortfeasor deliberately performs a wrongful act that injures an innocent victim.
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| show | Failure to act as a reasonable, careful person would act under the same or similar circumstances, thereby causing injury that was foreseeable.
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| Strict liability | show 🗑
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| show | Law holding manufacturers and sellers of goods liable to buyers, users, and perhaps bystanders for harm caused by defective goods.
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| Assault | show 🗑
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| show | Any harmful or offensive touching of another human being without excuse or consent.
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| Informed consent | show 🗑
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| show | The wrongful restraint of the personal liberty of another.
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| False arrest | show 🗑
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| Shopkeeper's privilege | show 🗑
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| show | Outrageous conduct that causes mental, if not immediate physical, suffering by the victim.
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| show | A federal law that outlaws certain unreasonably harsh collection practices previously used by professional debt collectors.
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| show | False statement injuring the reputation of the victim.
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| Slander | show 🗑
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| show | A false statement of fact about a person in written or other permanent form causing harm to the reputation of that person and further communicated to a third person.
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| Slander per se | show 🗑
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| show | A legal right to do or refrain from doing something enjoyed by only some persons or classes.
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| show | Total protection from liability for defamation.
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| Conditional or qualified privilege | show 🗑
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| Invasion of privacy | show 🗑
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| Conversion | show 🗑
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| Trespass to chattel | show 🗑
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| Fraud | show 🗑
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| Misrepresentation | show 🗑
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| Negligent misrepresentation | show 🗑
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| Bad faith | show 🗑
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| show | The obligation enforceable in court to recognize and respect the person, property, and rights of others.
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| Actual cause | show 🗑
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| Proximate cause | show 🗑
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| show | A cause of an accident or other injury that legally excuses the wrongdoer who originally sets a series of events in motion.
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| show | Statutes that protect volunteers from liability for ordinary negligence while aiding persons in need.
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| show | The failure of even slight or scant scare.
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| Negligence per se | show 🗑
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| show | Violation of duty of due care by a professional person.
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| Trespass | show 🗑
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| show | The doctrine under which minors who trespass may collect damages if attracted onto the defendant's premises where they are injured by a man-made instrumentality that has special appeal to children (ex: railroad turntable or unfenced swimming pool).
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| show | A person who enters another's land with permission of the owner or possessor, for the visitor's convenience.
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| show | One who enters another's land with the permission of the owner or occupier, for a matter of business benefiting the owner or occupier.
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| Res ipsa loquitur (Latin for "The thing speaks for itself") | show 🗑
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| show | Negligence of the plaintiff that does not bar recovery of damages but may reduce the amount of recovery proportionally.
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| show | The negligence of a plaintiff that helped to cause a tort.
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| show | When a plaintiff with knowledge of the facts of a dangerous condition voluntarily exposes themselves to the particular risk of injury.
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| show | Medical treatment, rehabilitation benefits, and disability payments for workers injured on the job.
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| show | When all members of a group of persons who have suffered the same or similar injury join together in a single lawsuit against the alleged wrongdoer.
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| Statute of repose | show 🗑
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| Compensatory damages | show 🗑
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| show | Amount awarded by a court to pay for monetary out-of-pocket losses resulting from the specific or special circumstances of the plaintiff.
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| show | Amount awarded by a court to pay for the plaintiff for nonmonetary losses (ex: pain/suffering) that resulted from an injury, without reference to any special circumstances of the plaintiff.
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| Consortium | show 🗑
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| Wrongful-death statutes | show 🗑
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| Survivor statutes | show 🗑
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| Punitive damages | show 🗑
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| Nominal damages | show 🗑
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| Judgment-proof | show 🗑
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