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Legal Definitions – Compensatory Damages
Compensatory damages are derived from the word "compensate," meaning "to make up for" or "to make whole." Generally, compensatory damages can be broken up into two sub-categories – actual damages and general damages. Examples of actual and general damages include ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Negligence
Negligence is defined as the failure to use reasonable due care to avoid a foreseeable harm to a person, place or thing. If you are negligent and your negligence causes injury to another person to whom you have a "duty of care," you may be liable to pay any damages resulting from the injury caused by your carelessness. Examples of negligence include ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Conversion
Conversion is an intentional interference with another's possession or ownership of property that is significant enough such that the interfering party is required to pay for the property’s full value. Examples of conversion include ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Trespass to Chattel
A wrongdoer commits trespass to chattel if he or she intentionally possesses someone else's property without their consent -- even if only for a brief period of time. Courts require that some sort of actual harm results from the trespass to chattel. Examples of trespass to chattel include ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Trespass
The law recognizes that owners of property have inherent rights, perhaps the most important being the right to the "exclusive" use of their property. A defendant (the accused wrongdoer) will be liable for trespass if he or she enters the plaintiff's (the alleged victim) property without the plaintiff's consent and interferes with the landowner's exclusive right to use the land. A trespass occurs when either ... Examples of trespassing include ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – What is Fraud and Misrepresentation?
Fraud occurs when someone intentionally makes false statements to induce another person to engage in certain conduct or give up something of value. Examples of fraud include ... Misrepresentation occurs when ... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
The tort (wrongdoing) of intentional infliction of emotional distress is committed when one engages in extreme and outrageous conduct that is intended to cause, and does in fact cause, severe mental anguish and distress in a victim. Examples of intentional infliction emotional distress include... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – False Imprisonment
False imprisonment is the unlawful detention or restraint of another's freedom of movement, for any length of time, without justification or consent. There are four principle elements in a false imprisonment claim... examples of false imprisonment include... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Assault
An assault is an act, or threat to act, that is intended to put a person in fear of imminent non-consensual physical touching. The tort (wrongdoing) of assault protects people from the fear that they will be physically harmed. Actual physical contact is not required, and in fact, if there is physical contact, the assault becomes a battery. Examples of assault include... Read the rest of this entry »
Legal Definitions – Battery
Battery is the intentional, non-consensual, harmful or offensive touching of another person, either by or put in motion by the perpetrator. Examples of battery include... Read the rest of this entry »
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