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Pregunta 1
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What is a tort?
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A kind of cake.
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A civil wrong.
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A type of law.
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A sanction for unethical attorneys.
Pregunta 2
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The injury involved in a tort can be a physical injury, emotional distress, or damage to one’s reputation or business. It can also be property damage.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 3
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Check all that relate to punitive damages.
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Involve jail time.
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Intended to punish the tortfeasor for the wrongdoing.
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Are very minimal.
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Also known as exemplary damages.
Pregunta 4
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There are four different types of torts.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 5
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What is a cause of action?
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The underlying causation of the accident.
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A legally recognized right to relief or damages.
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The type of injury suffered by the plaintiff.
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The action that caused the injury.
Pregunta 6
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Check all that apply to intentional torts.
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Tort in which the party committing the tort intends to do the act, knowing it will cause an injury.
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Did not exist at common law.
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Common law examples include: assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, misrepresentation, conversion, and trespass.
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Statutory examples include: sexual harassment, civil rights violations, and a series of business torts.
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Are never also considered crimes.
Pregunta 7
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False imprisonment occurs when a plaintiff is convicted and jailed but later found to be innocent.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 8
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A false arrest is a type of false imprisonment in which the confinement or restraint is done by one claiming the authority to make a lawful arrest.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 9
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The shopkeeper’s privilege means that a business can make a reasonable detention and investigation if they have reasonable grounds to believe that someone has shoplifted.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 10
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Libel and slander are really two different names for the same tort.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 11
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Invasion of privacy is a type of tort.
Respuesta
- True
- False
Pregunta 12
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Check all that apply to the Intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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Intentional and outrageous conduct that causes mental suffering.
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No damages are ever awarded for this.
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Courts have always been reluctant to recognize this tort, primarily because of the possibility of abuse and false claims.
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Requires outrageous conduct that is intentional or at least reckless.
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Associated with the mental suffering resulting from intentional mishandling of dead bodies, outrageous and cruel collection tactics, and insurance company tactics in refusing to pay benefits that are due, and most recently, with harassment in the workplace because of sex, age, race, or sexual orientation.
Pregunta 13
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Malicious prosecution can apply to both criminal and civil prosecutions.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 14
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What are some business torts? (Check all that apply)
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Slander of title
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intentional infliction of emotional distress
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Trade libel
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inducing a breach of contract
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negligence
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interference with prospective economic advantage
Pregunta 15
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Trespass is a tort against personal property, whereas conversion is a tort against real property.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 16
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Intellectual property means the information is protected by the attorney-client privilege.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 17
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Improper interference in the intellectual property rights of another.
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What is "annoying"?
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What is "infringement"?
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What is "stealing"?
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What is "larceny"?
Pregunta 18
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Is fraud a contract issue or a tort issue?
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Tort
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Contract
Pregunta 19
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Fraud requires (Check all that apply):
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that the misrepresentation be as to a matter of fact, not opinion
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that the victim is angered by the fraud
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that the victim is a minor
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that the statement be knowingly false and be made with the intent to deceive.
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that he person to whom the misrepresentation is made justifiably relies on the statement.
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damages.
Pregunta 20
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What are the two major defenses to intentional torts? (Check all that apply)
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Consent
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Fraud
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mistake
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privilege
Pregunta 21
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Negligence is: 1) the name given to a tort and 2) also used in its everyday meaning of “carelessness.”
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- True
- False
Pregunta 22
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Negligence consists of the following:
1. The tortfeasor was under a duty to use due care.
2. The tortfeasor breached that duty of due care.
3. The tortfeasor’s act was the actual cause of injuries or damages.
4. The tortfeasor’s act was the proximate cause of injuries or damages.
5. Damages were incurred.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 23
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The breach of the duty of due care is the negligent or careless act.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 24
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Res ipsa loquitur means:
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There was no negligence.
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Anyone would know there was negligence or a breach of duty from the fact that the incident occurred.
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There is a duty to act.
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The thing speaks for itself.
Pregunta 25
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When does negligence per se apply?
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When the plaintiff is pro se.
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If the tortfeasor’s act is also a violation of a statute
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If the plaintiff only suffered a financial injury.
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If the plaintiff only suffered a physical injury.
Pregunta 26
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Damages: (Check all that apply)
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Do not have to be based upon anything-can be arbitrary.
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are a required element of the tort of negligence.
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serve to compensate the tortfeasor.
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can compensate for emotional injury.
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Proving them often involves reviewing medical records and reports.
Pregunta 27
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Check all that apply to the term "premises liability":
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the negligent or careless maintenance of one’s real property.
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car accident
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slip and fall accidents
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intentional infliction of emotional distress
Pregunta 28
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A business invitee is someone invited onto the property for a business purpose. A licensee is generally a social guest, even though he or she might be invited. A trespasser is one who is not legally on the premises. The highest duty of due care is owed to the trespasser and the lowest duty of due care to the business invitee.
Respuesta
- True
- False
Pregunta 29
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Lawyers can never face liability for professional negligence.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 30
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The term product liability is used to describe lawsuits based on defective products.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 31
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Loss of consortium is never the basis of a negligence action.
Respuesta
- True
- False
Pregunta 32
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What are some defenses to negligence? (Check all that apply)
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Mistake
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Minority
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contributory negligence
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impossibility
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comparative negligence
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assumption of the risk
Pregunta 33
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The activities that give rise to strict liability are (1) maintaining a dangerous animal, (2) engaging in an abnormally dangerous activity, and (3) manufacturing or distributing a defective product.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 34
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Dynamiting is an example of an abnormally dangerous activity in which people are sometimes injured, even when the person engaging in the activity is very careful. In imposing liability in these circumstances, the law shows that compensating injured persons is simply a cost of doing business.
Respuesta
- True
- False
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