BLAW EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Tort
Answer:
A wrong. There are three categories of torts: intentional, unintentional,and strict
liability
Question:
2. Assualt
Answer:
(1) The threat of immediate harm or offensive contact or (2) any action that
arouses reasonable apprehension of imminent harm. Actual physical contact is
unnecessary.
Question:
3. Battery
Answer:
unauthorized and harmful or offensive direct or indirect physical contact with
another person that causes injury
Question:
4. False Imprisonment
Answer:
the intentional confinement or restraint of another person's activities without
justification or authority and without that persons consent.
Question:
5. Merchant protection statuses ( shopkeepers privilege)
Answer:
Statuses that allow merchants to stop,detain,and investigate suspected shoplifters
without being held liable for false imprisonment if (1) there are reasonable
grounds for the susception,(2) Suspects are detained for only a resendable time,
and (3) and investigating are conducted in a reasonable manner
Question:
6. Misappropriation of the right to publicity
Answer:
an attempt by another person to appropriate a living person's name or identity for
commercial purposes
, Question:
7. Invasion of the right to privacy
Answer:
The unwarranted and undesired publicity of a private fact about a person. The fact
does not have to be untrue.
Question:
8. defamation of character
Answer:
False statement(s) made by one person about another. In court, the plaintiff must
prove that (1) the defendant made an untrue statement of fact about the plaintiff
and (2) the statement was intentionally or accidentally published to a third party.
Question:
9. disparagement
Answer:
False statements made about a competitor's products, services, property, or
business reputation
Question:
10. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Answer:
a tort that says a person whose extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or
recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another person is liable for that
emotional distress
Question:
11. Malicious Prosecution
Answer:
A lawsuit in which the original defendant sues the original plaintiff. In the second
lawsuit, the defendant becomes the plaintiff and vice versa.
Question:
12. Unintentional Torts (Negligence)
Answer:
a doctrine that says a person is liable for harm that is the foreseeable
consequence of his or her actions
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Tort
Answer:
A wrong. There are three categories of torts: intentional, unintentional,and strict
liability
Question:
2. Assualt
Answer:
(1) The threat of immediate harm or offensive contact or (2) any action that
arouses reasonable apprehension of imminent harm. Actual physical contact is
unnecessary.
Question:
3. Battery
Answer:
unauthorized and harmful or offensive direct or indirect physical contact with
another person that causes injury
Question:
4. False Imprisonment
Answer:
the intentional confinement or restraint of another person's activities without
justification or authority and without that persons consent.
Question:
5. Merchant protection statuses ( shopkeepers privilege)
Answer:
Statuses that allow merchants to stop,detain,and investigate suspected shoplifters
without being held liable for false imprisonment if (1) there are reasonable
grounds for the susception,(2) Suspects are detained for only a resendable time,
and (3) and investigating are conducted in a reasonable manner
Question:
6. Misappropriation of the right to publicity
Answer:
an attempt by another person to appropriate a living person's name or identity for
commercial purposes
, Question:
7. Invasion of the right to privacy
Answer:
The unwarranted and undesired publicity of a private fact about a person. The fact
does not have to be untrue.
Question:
8. defamation of character
Answer:
False statement(s) made by one person about another. In court, the plaintiff must
prove that (1) the defendant made an untrue statement of fact about the plaintiff
and (2) the statement was intentionally or accidentally published to a third party.
Question:
9. disparagement
Answer:
False statements made about a competitor's products, services, property, or
business reputation
Question:
10. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Answer:
a tort that says a person whose extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or
recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another person is liable for that
emotional distress
Question:
11. Malicious Prosecution
Answer:
A lawsuit in which the original defendant sues the original plaintiff. In the second
lawsuit, the defendant becomes the plaintiff and vice versa.
Question:
12. Unintentional Torts (Negligence)
Answer:
a doctrine that says a person is liable for harm that is the foreseeable
consequence of his or her actions
