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		<title>Tort Law: Cause in Fact</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to establish a cause of action based on negligent conduct, or any other type of tortious conduct, the plaintiff usually must establish that the defendant's conduct caused the plaintiff's claimed damages


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		<title>Tort Law: Negligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following five distinct elements are essential to a negligence claim under tort law: duty, breach of duty, cause in fact, proximate cause, and actual damages


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		<title>Tort Law: Trespass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An action for trespass is designed to protect an owner's interest in exclusive possession of real or personal property in its intact physical condition. Therefore, a trespass is an injury to property committed by one not rightfully in possession. A trespasser is one who enters onto the property of another without any right or lawful authority. Trespass to land, trespass to chattel, and conversion are separate intentional torts designed to protect personal property from wrongful interference in different scenarios.  Trespass to chattel and conversion, which overlap in part, are derived from different historical origins.  In many, but not all instances, both torts may be applicable.


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		<title>Tort Law: False Imprisonment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The action of false imprisonment descends from the the common law writ of trespass and is one of the oldest causes of action in our legal system. An action for false imprisonment is intended to compensate an injured plaintiff whose freedom of movement has been unjustifiably hindered. In other words, when an individual is restrained without legal justification from going where he or she has a right to go, the individual may assert a cause of action for false imprisonment and is entitled to recover money damages.


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		<title>Tort Law: Proximate Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proximate Cause differs from cause in fact, although together they make causation for purposes of negligence. Courts will also interchange phrases. In order to prove proximate cause, the plaintiff has to show that the causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and the plaintiff's injury was not too attenuated, remote, or freakish to justify imposing responsibility on the defendant.


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		<title>Tort Law: Res Ipsa Loquitur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Res Ipsa Loquitur is latin for "the thing speaks for itself." Though it is seldom used today, due to scientific advances, res ipsa loquitur is a common law theory of evidence used in torts to help a plaintiff establish proof that a defendant was unreasonable in his or her conduct. Res ipsa loquitur allows a plaintiff to bring suit if a harm was probably caused by negligence and the defendant was probably the culpable party. In civil actions, which use the preponderance of evidence threshold, probably means >50% (more likely than not). Essentially, res ipsa loquitur is a very powerful form of circumstantial evidence.


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		<title>Survival Actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survival action is brought by the executor of the deceased's estate to recover for pain and suffering that may have occurred prior to death while the deceased was conscious.


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		<title>Wrongful Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In torts, wrongful death and survival damages allow a person to recover monetary damages for the death another. Under English common law, there was no recovery for a tort that caused death. This was justified with the "felony-merger rule," premised on the idea that any killing was a disturbance of the King's peace - not a wrong to the victim - thus the tort was merged with the felony. Additionally, all felonies under English common law were punishable by death and the felon's estate forfeited to the Crown; therefore there would be nothing left for the survivor to recover anyway.


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		<title>Loss of Consortium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loss of consortium is a blanket term in torts used to describe the damages suffered by a spouse when the other spouse is seriously injured or killed. Damages for loss of consortium include: general usefulness, household services, affection, comfort, and sexual services.


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		<title>Tort Law: Assault &amp; Battery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tort law, assault is an intentional threat or attempt, with apparent ability to do bodily harm to another resulting in immediate reasonable apprehension of bodily harm; physical contact is unnecessary. In contrast, battery is committed whenever an individual actually sustains a harmful or offensive contact to his or her person.


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