| A | B |
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| Tort | Private Wrong or civil wrong |
| damages | a monetary award intended to compensate the injured party for the harm done to her or him. |
| Duty of Care | a legal obligation to do or not to do something that can negatively affect another. |
| Breach | A violation of the Duty of Care |
| Injury | Harm that is recognized by the law. |
| causation | Proof that the breach caused the injury. |
| Intentional Torts | torts in which the defendant possessed the intent or purpose to inflict the resultant injury. |
| Assault | when one person intentionally puts another in reasonable fear of an offensive or harmful bodily contact. |
| Battery | Intentional breach of the duty to refrain from harmful or offensive touching of another. |
| False Imprisonment | the intentional confinement of a person against the person's will and without lawful privilege. |
| Defamation | A false statement that injures a person's reputation or good name. |
| Slander | Spoken defamation |
| Libel | Defamation that is written or printed. |
| Invasion of Privacy | Uninvited intrusion into (or interruption of) an individual's personal relationships and activities. |
| Trespass to land | Entry onto the property of another without the owner's consent. |
| Conversion | The stealing, destroying, or using of the property of another in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights. |
| Fraud | Intentional misrepresentation of an existing important fact (a lie). |
| Strict Liability | When tort liability exist even though the defendant was not negligent. |
| Injunction | a court order for a person to do or not do a particular act. |
