GoConqr has a new look! Let us know what you think.

Sign up free

Quiz

Collocations - Intentional Torts and Privacy

Manuel Lujan 9 questions

Take the quiz

This quiz has question types that open in the usual player.

Questions in this quiz (9)

  1. 1In a [blank_start]tort action[blank_end], one person or group [blank_start]brings[blank_end] a lawsuit against another person or group to [blank_start]obtain[blank_end] compensation (monetary damages) or other relief for the harm suffered.
    1. Atort action
    2. Bbrings
    3. Cobtain
  2. 2Compensatory damages and punitive damages are the two general types of damages that plaintiffs [blank_start]seek[blank_end] in tort actions.
    1. Aseek
  3. 3Compensatory damages are intended to compensate or [blank_start]reimburse[blank_end] a plaintiff for actual losses—that is, to put her or him in the same position that she or he would have been in had the tort not [blank_start]occurred[blank_end].
    Occasionally, the courts may also [blank_start]award[blank_end] punitive damages in tort cases to punish the wrongdoer and [blank_start]deter[blank_end] others [blank_start]from[blank_end] similar wrongdoing. Punitive damages are appropriate only when the defendant's conduct was particularly [blank_start]egregious[blank_end] or reprehensible.
    1. Areimburse
    2. Boccurred
    3. Caward
    4. Ddeter
    5. Efrom
    6. Fegregious
  4. 4Businesspersons often [blank_start]face[blank_end] [blank_start]suits[blank_end] for false imprisonment after they have attempted to [blank_start]confine[blank_end] a suspected shoplifter for questioning. Under the "privilege" to detain [blank_start]granted[blank_end] to merchants in most states, a merchant can use [blank_start]reasonable[blank_end] force to detain or delay persons suspected of shoplifting and [blank_start]hold[blank_end] them for the police.
    1. Aface
    2. Bsuits
    3. Cconfine
    4. Dgranted
    5. Ereasonable
    6. Fhold
  5. 5To be actionable means to be capable of [blank_start]serving as ground[blank_end] for a lawsuit.
    1. Aserving as ground
  6. 6Businesspersons are [blank_start]prohibited[blank_end] [blank_start]from[blank_end] unreasonably interfering with another's business in their attempts to gain a greater share of the market.
    1. Aprohibited
    2. Bfrom
  7. 7The basis of the tort of defamation is the publication of a statement or statements that [blank_start]hold[blank_end] an individual [blank_start]up[blank_end] [blank_start]to[blank_end] contempt, ridicule or hatred.
    1. Ahold
    2. Bup
    3. Cto
  8. 8Before a person can be a trespasser, the real property owner must [blank_start]establish[blank_end] that person [blank_start]as[blank_end] a trespasser.
    1. Aestablish
    2. Bas
  9. 9[blank_start]Under[blank_end] the "attractive nuisance" [blank_start]doctrine[blank_end], a landowner may be [blank_start]held[blank_end] liable for injuries [blank_start]sustained[blank_end] by young children on the landowner's property if the children were attracted to the premises by some object, such as a swimming pool or an abandoned building.
    1. AUnder
    2. Bdoctrine
    3. Cheld
    4. Dsustained

Information

Description
West, unit 2, chapter 6.
Language
Español
Views
84
Rating
No ratings yet
Rate this quiz
Rate this quiz

Feedback

What is it about?

What do you think of the new look?

How do you like it?