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Torts Outline

I. Intentional Torts to Persons
 
 1. Battery: Act
          Intent
          Harmful or offensive touching
          Causation
          Daqmages
 
 2. Assault: Act
          Intent
          Apprehention
          Causation
          Damages

 3. False Imprisonment
          Act
          Intent
          Confinement
          Causation
          Damages

 4. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
          Act
          Intent
          Causation
          Severe emotional distress
          Defenses
          Damages

 3. Defenses: Consent
           Self-defense
           Defense of third persons
           Defense of land or chattels

II. Torts to Property

 1. Trespass to Land: Act
                  Intent
                  Intrusion on land
                  Actual or immediate possession
                  Causation
                  Damages

 2. Trespass to Chattels: Act
                    Intent
                    Invasion of chattel interest
                    Possessionor immediate possession
                    Causation
                    Damages

 3. Conversion of Chattels

 4. Defenses: Consent
           Privileged invasion to reclaim chattels
           Privilige to exclude or evict trespassing chattels of another
           Privilege for public necessity/private necessity
           Privilege for abating nuisance

III. Negligence

 1. Act or Omission of Act

 2. Duty of due Care: reasonable person standard

 3. Breach of Duty

 4. Actual Cause (Cause in Fact)

 5. Proximate Cause (Legal Cause)

 6. Damages

 7. Special Duty Issues: Duties measured by statutes
                    Duty to aid in emergency
                    Affirmative duty to prevent harm
                    Duty to perform promises(nonfeasance/misfeasance)
                    Duty owed by common carrier
                    Duty to control third persons
                    Duty owed by land occupiers
                    Duty owed by entrants on another¡¯s land
                    Duty owed by lessors of land
                    Duty owed by sellers of land
                    Duty owed by bailors of chattels
                    Duty relating to emotional distress

 8. Defenses to Negligence: Contributory negligence
                       Comparative negligence
                       Assumption of risk

 9. Effect of Liability Insurance

IV. Strict Liability

 1. Animals

 2. Abnormally Dangerous Activities

 3. Extent of Liability

 4. Defenses

V. Products Liability

 1. Intentional Tort

 2. Negligence

 3. Strict liability: Rational
               Manufacturing defects, design defects, inadequate warnings
               Scope of liability

 4. Defenses to Strict Tort liability: Contributory negligence
                             Comparative negligence
                             Assumption of risk

 5. Liability Based on Breach of Warranty

VI. Nuisance

 1. Private vs Public Nuisance

 2. Substantial and Unreasonable Harm

 3. Causation

 4. Remedies

 5. Defenses

VII. Factors Affecting Right to Sue

 1. Survival of Tort Actions

 2. Wrongful Death

 3. Injuries to Family Members

 4. Tort Immunity: Intra-family/Governmental sovereign immunity

 5. Release and Contribution among Joint Tortfeasors

 6. Indemnity

IX. Statutory Changes in Personal Injury Law:

 1. Workmen¡¯s Comp

 2. Medical Malpractice

X. Defamation

 1. Publication to a Third Party

 2. Harm to Reputation: defamatory meaning/of and concerning P

 3. False Facts

 4. Causation

 5. Damages

 6. Defenses: consent, truth, privileges

 7. Constitutional Privileges

XI. Wrongful Invasion of Privacy

 1. Intrusions into Private Life or Affairs

 2. Public Disclosure of Private Facts

 3. Appropriation of Name/Likeness

 4. Publicity Placing P in False Light

XI. Other Torts

 1. Misrepresentation: Intentional vs Negligent

 2. Injurious Falsehood(Fraud and Deceit)

 3. Interference with Contractual Relations

 4. Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage

 5. Malicious Prosecution/Civil Proceedings(Abuse of Process)

 
   
     


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