A brief excerpt from Quimbee's lecture video on battery. Watch more at https://www.quimbee.com/lectures/12. For just $15/month, you can get access to Quimbee's expansive library of law tutorials, lecture videos, practice questions, and case briefs. Enroll today at https://www.quimbee.com/users/sign_up This video is just one of 70 videos in our lecture on torts. "Torts" table of contents: 1. Introduction + Opening Remarks 2. Intentional Torts + Intent + Battery + Assault + False Imprisonment + Trespass to Land + Trespass to Chattel and Conversion of Chattel + Examples of Trespass and Conversion of Chattel + Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress 3. Defenses to Intentional Torts + Self-Defense + Defending and Retaking Property: Use of Force + Defending and Retaking Property: Shopkeeper's Privileges + Consent + Necessity 4. The Basic Elements of Negligence + Introduction to Negligence 5. Negligence: Duty of Care + Importance of Duty and the "No Duty to Act" Rule + General Reasonable Person Standard + Introduction to Professional and Medical Liability + Duties of Children and Other Particular Standards of Care + Duty to Foreseeable Plaintiffs + Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees + Examples of the Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees + Duties of Landowners to Their Residential Tenants + Duties of Landowners to Child Trespassers + Introduction to Recreational Use Statutes + Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with Plaintiff + Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with the Third Person + Duty Arising from Risk Creation + Duty Arising from a Promise, Undertaking, or Relationship + Duties of Those Who Furnish Alcohol for Profit + Duties Among Family Members 6. Negligence: Particular Issues + Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress + Slip and Fall Cases + Toxic Torts + The Firefighter's Rule + Good Samaritan Laws 7. Negligence: Breach + Evaluating Defendant's Conduct and Establishing Breach + Negligence Per Se + Res Ipsa Loquitur 8. Negligence: Harm and Actual Causation + Actual Harm + Tests for Actual Causation 9. Negligence: Proximate Cause + Introduction to Proximate Cause + Role of Intervening Persons or Forces + Relationship Between Proximate Cause and Plaintiff's Fault 10. Defenses to Negligence + Contributory Negligence + Comparative Fault Schemes + Plaintiff's Illegal Activity + Assumption of the Risk + Statutes of Limitation 11. Vicarious Liability + Introduction to Vicarious Liability + Respondeat Superior: The Master-Servant Relationship + Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Negligence) + Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Intentional Torts) + Employer Liability for the Torts of Independent Contractors 12. Strict Liability + Introduction to Strict Liability + Trespassing Animals + Nuisance + Abnormally Dangerous Activities + Defenses to Strict Liability 13. Products Liability + Introduction to Products Liability + Manufacturing Defects + Manufacturing Defects in Food + Design Defects + Exclusion of Mere Economic Loss + Warning or Informational Defects + Negligence in Products Liability + Strict Liability in Products Liability + Defenses to Product Liability 14. Responsibility and Damages + Joint and Several Liability + Contribution in a Joint and Several Liability System + Indemnification, Subrogation, and Satisfaction + Compensatory and Punitive Damages + Death in Tort Law + Avoidable Consequences and Plaintiff's Mitigation of Damages + Emotional Distress as Damage + Loss of Consortium 15. Economic, Dignitary, and Relational Torts + Introduction to Defamation + Defamation in Light of the First Amendment + Privileges and Defenses to Defamation + Damages in Common Law Defamation 16. Conclusion + Final Thoughts

• published: 23 Nov 2013
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