In a , one person or group a lawsuit against another person or group to compensation (monetary damages) or other relief for the harm suffered.

Compensatory damages and punitive damages are the two general types of damages that plaintiffs in tort actions.

Compensatory damages are intended to compensate or 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 .
Occasionally, the courts may also punitive damages in tort cases to punish the wrongdoer and others similar wrongdoing. Punitive damages are appropriate only when the defendant's conduct was particularly or reprehensible.

Businesspersons often for false imprisonment after they have attempted to a suspected shoplifter for questioning. Under the "privilege" to detain to merchants in most states, a merchant can use force to detain or delay persons suspected of shoplifting and them for the police.

To be actionable means to be capable of for a lawsuit.

Businesspersons are unreasonably interfering with another's business in their attempts to gain a greater share of the market.

The basis of the tort of defamation is the publication of a statement or statements that an individual contempt, ridicule or hatred.

Before a person can be a trespasser, the real property owner must that person a trespasser.

the "attractive nuisance" , a landowner may be liable for injuries 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.