AZ Bar Torts 2

Question 1

For a battery claim, which element distinguishes it from mere assault?

Accepted Answer

Harmful or offensive contact with the plaintiff must actually occur

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The defendant must have intended to cause harmful contact with malice

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The plaintiff must suffer a physical, quantifiable injury

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The defendant must have acted with knowledge that contact was certain

Question 2

A plaintiff can establish an assault claim if:

Accepted Answer

The defendant intentionally causes the plaintiff to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact

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The defendant intentionally causes harmful or offensive contact with the plaintiff

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The plaintiff suffers physical injury as a result of the defendant's threatening conduct

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The defendant makes a credible threatening statement delivered over the telephone

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a required element of false imprisonment?

Accepted Answer

The plaintiff must be aware of the confinement at the time it occurs

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An act or omission that confines the plaintiff to a bounded area

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Intent by the defendant to confine or restrain the plaintiff

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The plaintiff must have no reasonable means of escape from the bounded area

Question 4

Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) requires conduct that is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Extreme and outrageous, intentionally or recklessly causing the plaintiff severe emotional distress

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Negligent and causes the plaintiff to suffer severe emotional distress

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Threatening or menacing, causing the plaintiff to fear for their physical safety

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Fraudulent or deceptive, causing both economic harm and emotional distress

Question 5

Trespass to land is considered intentional in the sense that:

Accepted Answer

The defendant need only intend the act causing the physical invasion, not necessarily know the land belongs to another

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The defendant must intend to cause harm or damage to the plaintiff's property

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Any unauthorized physical entry onto another's land is automatically actionable without proving intent

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The defendant must intend to remain on the property after being told to leave

Question 6

The tort of conversion requires proof of:

Accepted Answer

An intentional act that so seriously interferes with the plaintiff's right to possess personal property that the defendant must pay its full value

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A temporary or minor interference with the plaintiff's personal property rights

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Willful destruction of another's property with malicious intent

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Deception or stealth used to obtain possession of another person's personal property

Question 7

Self-defense as a privilege in intentional tort law requires that:

Accepted Answer

The defendant must use reasonable force in response to an imminent threat of unlawful harmful or offensive contact

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The defendant must have actually faced a threat involving deadly force to invoke self-defense

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The defendant may use any level of force if they honestly and subjectively believed they were threatened

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The defendant must attempt to retreat before using any degree of defensive force