List all of the intentional torts

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List all of the intentional torts

Intentional torts are actions taken with the intent to harm another person or another's property. The law of intentional torts requires that the person causing the harm either knew or should have known that his or her actions would result in harm. Some of intentional tort are:

Assault: Acting deliberately or intentionally doing something wrong causing the reasonable fear of an immediate harmful or unpleasant contact to others. Assault need not involve actual contact. It only needs intent and the resulting apprehension.

For example: laughing in front of black people because of being black is Assault.

Battery: Battery is unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with another person. Every person possess their own personal safety and without authorization of them no one are allow to touch them. When someone makes harm physically to another person by touching them or using some other means like rock, chair, bullet its fall under the Battery torts.

For example: while walking in the street, pulling the girl hair is battery

False imprisonment: This refers to the intentional imprisonment of another person without any authority and justification without that person’s consent. (Cheeseman, 2012). The false imprisonment should be complete and a threat of future harm and moral pressure is not considered as false imprisonment.

Misappropriation of the Right to Publicity: An attempt by another person to appropriate a living person’s name or identity for commercial purposes. Also known as the tort of appropriation

For example: if company uses the name or picture of celebrity in the promotion of their product without authority of concern celebrity.

Invasion of the Right to Privacy: A tort that constitutes the violation of a person’s right to live his or her life without being subjected to unwanted and undesired publicity.

For example: the newspaper editor write about the life of hero in their own word without permission of their

Defamation of Character: False statement(s) made by one person about another. The plaintiff must prove that: The defendant made an untrue statement of fact about the plaintiff; and The statement was intentionally or accidentally published to a third party

For example: Ram said hari is football player but in actual hari is cricketer.

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: A tort that says a person whose extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another person is liable for that emotional distress. This is called intentional infliction of emotional distresses or tort of outrage.

For example: calling friend every day at midnight that distract his sleep and as a result he feel unwell other day.

Malicious Prosecution: This term refers to a lawsuit in which the original defendant can sue the original plaintiff, and in the second lawsuit, the defendant becomes the plaintiff and vice-versa. (Cheeseman, 2012). A successful defendant in a prior lawsuit can sue the plaintiff if the first lawsuit was frivolous. Certain elements must be proven to win a lawsuit for malicious prosecution. The courts do not look favorably on malicious prosecution lawsuits.

Reference

Cheeseman, Henry R. (2012). Torts and Privacy. In Contemporary Business and Online Commerce Law. (5^th edi.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.