PHILOS 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: False Imprisonment, Immanence
15 Jan 2019
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Philos 2q03 nov 21 2017: puzzle involved in offer and acceptance, offer contain criteria of contract. Torts: provides compensation for injury or damage by another private party, the law of torts is that part of private law that deals with wrongful behaviour that causes harm or damage to another person or their property. Elements of a tort: wrongful conduct, harm, cause. Two categories of torts: torts of negligence. Intentional torts when someone intentionally inflicts pain or harm on someone else: they are deliberate acts intended to inure others, or wherein someone intentionally violates another person"s rights. Injuries that still involve having your rights violated: one person goes out to intentionally make someone suffer, doesn"t involve acting with malice or bad intention, e. g. defamation. Intentionally engaging in a harmful or offensive contact with another person. Assault: fear that the offense is immediately going to happen. Intentionally creating a reasonable belief of immanent harm or of offensive contact.
