Examples of intentional torts against a person include assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment. Intentional torts against property include trespass to chattels, trespass to land, and conversion.
A common intentional tort is battery, defined as the intentional infliction of a harmful or offensive contact. If person A punches person B in the mouth, A has committed battery. If A throws a water balloon and water lands on B, A has committed battery. If A kisses B without B’s consent, then A may have committed battery.
- What are the basic types of torts?
- How does tort law differ from contract law?
- Can the same conduct form the basis for both a crime and a tort?
- How does tort law differ from criminal law?
- What types of cases are examples of tort cases?
- Where does the word tort come from?
- What is a tort?
- Can stepparents adopt their spouse’s biological children?
- Does a biological father have the right to notification that his child may be placed for adoption by the child’s mother?
- What age restrictions are imposed on prospective adoptive parents?
- What expenses do adoptive parents pay to the birth mother?
- Can prospective adoptive parents advertise that they wish to adopt a child?
- Can adoption agencies consider the race of the adoptive parents or children when making decisions?
- What is a foreign adoption?
- What is the court or judge’s role in the adoption process?
- What information does an adoption agency consider when determining whether to place a child with prospective adoptive parents?
- Can birth mothers withdraw consent to an adoption?
- Who must consent to an adoption?
- What methods of adoptions are there?
- What is adoption?
