MGMT 200 PURDUE UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is the rule of false imprisonment under civil law? - ✔✔-Intentional physical or
psychological confinement of another, within fixed boundaries for any period of time,
without consent or privilege
-No reasonable means of escape
-Must have awareness of confinement or physical injury
✔✔What is an exception to false imprisonment? - ✔✔Shopkeeper's privilege: if
someone has been suspected of shoplifting, somebody can detain someone pending
law enforcement to come and determine whether or not that shoplifting occurred
✔✔What is the rule of intentional infliction of emotional distress under civil law? - ✔✔-
Conduct of an extreme and outrageous nature which is intended to cause and which
does cause severe emotional distress
-Must be extreme or outrageous
-No transferred intent
✔✔What are the intentional torts to property? - ✔✔1. Real property (trespass to land)
2. Personal property (trespass to chattels, conversion)
✔✔What is the rule of trespass to land (real property) under civil law? - ✔✔-The
intentional entry upon land in possession of another without consent or privilege
-Requires some tangible entry
-Mistake is no defense
✔✔What is the rule of trespass to chattels (personal property) under civil law? - ✔✔-
Minor intentional interference with the personal property of another without consent or
privilege
-Chattel: item of personal property that is movable at the time
-Mistake is no defense
-Actual minor damage or interference
✔✔What is the rule of conversion (personal property) under civil law? - ✔✔-Major
intentional interference with the personal property of another without consent or
privilege
-Mistake is no defense
-More than minor or temporary: damaged forever, taken
-Damages: fair market value at the time of conversion
✔✔Defamation (crime against reputation) - ✔✔-Somebody said something that was
defaming and hurt someone's reputation (not true and negative)
, ✔✔What does a plaintiff have to do in order to establish a prima facie case under
defamation (common law)? - ✔✔1. False statement: burden of proof on plaintiff to prove
falsity
2. Defamatory: must harm or injure plaintiff's reputation
3. Published: must be heard by at least 1 third person, intentional or negligent OK
4. About or concerning plaintiff: extrinsic facts OK
5. Caused damage: plaintiff needs to prove damages; types of damages to prove
depends on type of defamation plaintiff claims
✔✔What are the three types of defamation? - ✔✔1. Slander
2. Slander per se
3. Libel
✔✔Slander - ✔✔-Oral defamation
-Plaintiff: must prove actual special damages (pecuniary)
Once special damages are proven, general damages are also recoverable
✔✔Libel - ✔✔-Written defamation
-Plaintiff: does not need to prove actual special damages, general damages are
presumed
✔✔Slander Per Se - ✔✔Oral defamation that concerns:
-Business profession
-Serious crime
-Loathsome disease
-Unchasity
Plaintiff does not need to prove actual special damages: general damages are
presumed
✔✔Defamation: Constitutional - ✔✔If the defamation includes a "public" or
"newsworthy" ingredient (person or event): must consider constitutional requirement of
actual malice to recover damages
✔✔Injurious Falsehood (business defamation) - ✔✔-Economic or financial harm (as
opposed to reputational harm)
✔✔What is required to prove injurious falsehood? - ✔✔1. False statement
2. Published
3. Malicious intent
4. Causes actual economic damage
✔✔Invasion of Privacy: False Light - ✔✔-Very similar to defamation
-Widespread publication of false info that is highly offensive to a reasonable person
✔✔Fraudulent Misrepresentation (fraud) - ✔✔-False statement of material fact
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is the rule of false imprisonment under civil law? - ✔✔-Intentional physical or
psychological confinement of another, within fixed boundaries for any period of time,
without consent or privilege
-No reasonable means of escape
-Must have awareness of confinement or physical injury
✔✔What is an exception to false imprisonment? - ✔✔Shopkeeper's privilege: if
someone has been suspected of shoplifting, somebody can detain someone pending
law enforcement to come and determine whether or not that shoplifting occurred
✔✔What is the rule of intentional infliction of emotional distress under civil law? - ✔✔-
Conduct of an extreme and outrageous nature which is intended to cause and which
does cause severe emotional distress
-Must be extreme or outrageous
-No transferred intent
✔✔What are the intentional torts to property? - ✔✔1. Real property (trespass to land)
2. Personal property (trespass to chattels, conversion)
✔✔What is the rule of trespass to land (real property) under civil law? - ✔✔-The
intentional entry upon land in possession of another without consent or privilege
-Requires some tangible entry
-Mistake is no defense
✔✔What is the rule of trespass to chattels (personal property) under civil law? - ✔✔-
Minor intentional interference with the personal property of another without consent or
privilege
-Chattel: item of personal property that is movable at the time
-Mistake is no defense
-Actual minor damage or interference
✔✔What is the rule of conversion (personal property) under civil law? - ✔✔-Major
intentional interference with the personal property of another without consent or
privilege
-Mistake is no defense
-More than minor or temporary: damaged forever, taken
-Damages: fair market value at the time of conversion
✔✔Defamation (crime against reputation) - ✔✔-Somebody said something that was
defaming and hurt someone's reputation (not true and negative)
, ✔✔What does a plaintiff have to do in order to establish a prima facie case under
defamation (common law)? - ✔✔1. False statement: burden of proof on plaintiff to prove
falsity
2. Defamatory: must harm or injure plaintiff's reputation
3. Published: must be heard by at least 1 third person, intentional or negligent OK
4. About or concerning plaintiff: extrinsic facts OK
5. Caused damage: plaintiff needs to prove damages; types of damages to prove
depends on type of defamation plaintiff claims
✔✔What are the three types of defamation? - ✔✔1. Slander
2. Slander per se
3. Libel
✔✔Slander - ✔✔-Oral defamation
-Plaintiff: must prove actual special damages (pecuniary)
Once special damages are proven, general damages are also recoverable
✔✔Libel - ✔✔-Written defamation
-Plaintiff: does not need to prove actual special damages, general damages are
presumed
✔✔Slander Per Se - ✔✔Oral defamation that concerns:
-Business profession
-Serious crime
-Loathsome disease
-Unchasity
Plaintiff does not need to prove actual special damages: general damages are
presumed
✔✔Defamation: Constitutional - ✔✔If the defamation includes a "public" or
"newsworthy" ingredient (person or event): must consider constitutional requirement of
actual malice to recover damages
✔✔Injurious Falsehood (business defamation) - ✔✔-Economic or financial harm (as
opposed to reputational harm)
✔✔What is required to prove injurious falsehood? - ✔✔1. False statement
2. Published
3. Malicious intent
4. Causes actual economic damage
✔✔Invasion of Privacy: False Light - ✔✔-Very similar to defamation
-Widespread publication of false info that is highly offensive to a reasonable person
✔✔Fraudulent Misrepresentation (fraud) - ✔✔-False statement of material fact
