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LS100: Chapter 7 Practice Quiz

LS100: Chapter 7 Practice Quiz

Pregunta 1 de 34

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What is a tort?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A kind of cake.

  • A civil wrong.

  • A type of law.

  • A sanction for unethical attorneys.

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 3 de 34

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Check all that relate to punitive damages.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Involve jail time.

  • Intended to punish the tortfeasor for the wrongdoing.

  • Are very minimal.

  • Also known as exemplary damages.

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Pregunta 4 de 34

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There are four different types of torts.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 5 de 34

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What is a cause of action?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The underlying causation of the accident.

  • A legally recognized right to relief or damages.

  • The type of injury suffered by the plaintiff.

  • The action that caused the injury.

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 34

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Check all that apply to intentional torts.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Tort in which the party committing the tort intends to do the act, knowing it will cause an injury.

  • Did not exist at common law.

  • Common law examples include: assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, misrepresentation, conversion, and trespass.

  • Statutory examples include: sexual harassment, civil rights violations, and a series of business torts.

  • Are never also considered crimes.

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 34

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False imprisonment occurs when a plaintiff is convicted and jailed but later found to be innocent.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 8 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 34

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Libel and slander are really two different names for the same tort.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 34

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Invasion of privacy is a type of tort.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 12 de 34

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Check all that apply to the Intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Intentional and outrageous conduct that causes mental suffering.

  • No damages are ever awarded for this.

  • Courts have always been reluctant to recognize this tort, primarily because of the possibility of abuse and false claims.

  • Requires outrageous conduct that is intentional or at least reckless.

  • 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.

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 34

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Malicious prosecution can apply to both criminal and civil prosecutions.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 14 de 34

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What are some business torts? (Check all that apply)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Slander of title

  • intentional infliction of emotional distress

  • Trade libel

  • inducing a breach of contract

  • negligence

  • interference with prospective economic advantage

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 34

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Trespass is a tort against personal property, whereas conversion is a tort against real property.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 16 de 34

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Intellectual property means the information is protected by the attorney-client privilege.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 34

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Improper interference in the intellectual property rights of another.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • What is "annoying"?

  • What is "infringement"?

  • What is "stealing"?

  • What is "larceny"?

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 34

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Is fraud a contract issue or a tort issue?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Tort

  • Contract

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 34

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Fraud requires (Check all that apply):

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • that the misrepresentation be as to a matter of fact, not opinion

  • that the victim is angered by the fraud

  • that the victim is a minor

  • that the statement be knowingly false and be made with the intent to deceive.

  • that he person to whom the misrepresentation is made justifiably relies on the statement.

  • damages.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 34

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What are the two major defenses to intentional torts? (Check all that apply)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Consent

  • Fraud

  • mistake

  • privilege

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 34

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Negligence is: 1) the name given to a tort and 2) also used in its everyday meaning of “carelessness.”

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 34

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The breach of the duty of due care is the negligent or careless act.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 34

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Res ipsa loquitur means:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • There was no negligence.

  • Anyone would know there was negligence or a breach of duty from the fact that the incident occurred.

  • There is a duty to act.

  • The thing speaks for itself.

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 34

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When does negligence per se apply?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • When the plaintiff is pro se.

  • If the tortfeasor’s act is also a violation of a statute

  • If the plaintiff only suffered a financial injury.

  • If the plaintiff only suffered a physical injury.

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 34

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Damages: (Check all that apply)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Do not have to be based upon anything-can be arbitrary.

  • are a required element of the tort of negligence.

  • serve to compensate the tortfeasor.

  • can compensate for emotional injury.

  • Proving them often involves reviewing medical records and reports.

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 34

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Check all that apply to the term "premises liability":

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the negligent or careless maintenance of one’s real property.

  • car accident

  • slip and fall accidents

  • intentional infliction of emotional distress

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 34

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Lawyers can never face liability for professional negligence.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 34

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The term product liability is used to describe lawsuits based on defective products.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 34

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Loss of consortium is never the basis of a negligence action.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 34

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What are some defenses to negligence? (Check all that apply)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Mistake

  • Minority

  • contributory negligence

  • impossibility

  • comparative negligence

  • assumption of the risk

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 34

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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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 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.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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