| A | B |
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| Tort | is a private or civil wrong |
| Damages | the person injured as a result can sue and obtain a judgment |
| negligence | not acting as a reasonable person would have acted |
| respondeat superior | the principal/employer accountable for the acts of its agent/employee |
| res ipsa loquitur | the act speaks for itself |
| intentional torts | torts in which the defendant possessed the intent or purpose to inflict the resultant injury |
| assault | occurs when one person intentionally puts another in reasonable fear of an offensive or harmful touching |
| battery | harmful or offensive touching of another |
| false imprisonment | the intentional confinement of a person against the person's will and without lawful privileges |
| defamation | false statement injures a person's reputation or good name |
| Slander | spoken defamation |
| libel | written defamation |
| invasion of privacy | tort defined as the uninvited intrusion into an individual's personal relationships and activities in a way likely to cause shame or mental suffering in an ordinary person. |
| fraud | occurs when there is an intentional or recklessly made misrepresentation of an existing important fact |
| conversion | using property in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights |
| strict liability | absolute liability, a defendant can be held lible if he or she merely engaged in a parcticular activity that resulted in injury, regardless of whether or not he or she was negligent |
| injunction | a court order for a person to do r not do a particluar act |
| compensatory damages | meant to place the injured part in the position he or she was in prior to the injury or loss |
| punitive dmanages | a type of damages generally only awarded in intentional tort cases |
