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🤕Torts
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137 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Torts exam

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A

Absolute immunity
Absolute Privilege
Actual Malice
Administrative Efficiency
Affirmative Defense
Alter Ego Rule
Attorney-client privilege

B

Balancing Test
Bird v. Jones
Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
Building codes
Burden of persuasion
Burden of Production
Burden of taking precautions
Byrne v. Boadle

C

Capacity to consent
Castle doctrine
Catastrophic injuries
Causal Connection
Choice of Law
Civil Assault vs. Criminal Assault
Class action lawsuits
Clear and Convincing Evidence
Cole v. Turner
Coming to the Nuisance
Common carrier-passenger relationship
Common Carriers
Consumer Protection
Contact sports
Corrective advertising
Creation of Peril
Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
Cyber Liability

D

Damages
Data breach claims
Deadly force
Defamation Liability
Deterrence
Doctrine of informed consent
Donoghue v Stevenson
Donoghue v. Stevenson

E

Enforceability
Environmental Torts
Escola v Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Expert testimony
Express Warranty
Extreme and Outrageous Conduct

F

False advertising
False Light
False Light vs Appropriation
Forum shopping

G

General vs. Special Damages
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
Good Samaritan Laws
Greenman v. Yuba Power Products

H

Harris v. Jones

I

Imminent Danger
Implied Warranty
Implied Warranty of Merchantability
Independent Tort
Injunctive Relief
Intent in Intentional Tort Claims

J

Jacque v. Steenberg Homes
Joint and Several Liability Reforms
Judicial Discretion

L

Laches
Landlord-tenant relationship
Last clear chance doctrine
Legitimate Public Interest
Liability insurance
Liability waiver
Likelihood of harm
Litigation costs
Local Governments