Business chapter seven terms
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| show | A private wrong committed by one person (the tortfeasor) that injures another (the victim) in person and/or property and for which society allows the legal remedy of monetary damages.
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| show | A wrongdoer who commits a private injury to another person by breaching a duty recognized by law.
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| Intentional tort | show 🗑
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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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| show | A tort theory available in special situations determined by public policy where a person is held responsible for harm occurring to another without proof of fault.
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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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| show | The tort of creating apprehension in the mind of the victim that he is about to be touched in a harmful or an offensive way. There is no requirement that the actor have the present ability to inflict actual harm.
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| Battery | show 🗑
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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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| show | Taking custody of another, without proper legal authority, to be held or restrained in order to answer a civil claim or criminal charge.
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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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| Defamation | show 🗑
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| Slander | show 🗑
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| Libel | show 🗑
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| show | Slander in itself; words not requiring proof of special damages.
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| Privilege | show 🗑
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| Absolute privilege | show 🗑
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| show | A partial immunity that protects one who makes a defamatory statement in the performance of a legal, moral, or social duty, to a person who has a corresponding duty or interest in receiving it.
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| Invasion of privacy | show 🗑
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| Conversion | show 🗑
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| show | A brief, temporary, unauthorized interference with the personal-property rights of another.
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| show | A knowingly false representation of a material fact, made through words or conduct, with intent to deceive a victim, who is induced to contract in reliance on the lie, and who is thereby injured.
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| Misrepresentation | show 🗑
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| show | A false statement made carelessly.
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| Bad faith | show 🗑
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| Duty | show 🗑
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| show | The negligent person's carelessness is the reason for the loss by the victim.
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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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| Good Samaritan laws | show 🗑
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| show | The failure of even slight or scant scare.
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| show | The unexcused violation of statute or ordinance that is automatically deemed to be negligent conduct without argument or proof as the particular surrounding circumstances.
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| Malpractice | show 🗑
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| Trespass | show 🗑
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| Attractive nuisance doctrine | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| show | Amount awarded by a court to make good or replace the actual loss suffered by a plaintiff.
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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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| show | The reciprocal legal right of companionship, cooperation, aid, affection, and sexual relations of each spouse from and to the other.
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| show | A law allowing the heirs of a deceased person to sue whoever caused the decedent's death and to collect any court-awarded damages.
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| show | Law allowing a lawsuit even after the death of the victim, perhaps permitting recovery for damages to the victim.
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| Punitive damages | show 🗑
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| show | Insignificant amount (such as $1) awarded by a court when the defendant has violated the rights of the plaintiff but no monetary loss has been suffered or can be proved.
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