MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: False Imprisonment, Qualified Privilege, Malicious Falsehood

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Raddocchia

Document Summary

Tort acions relevant to businesses can be divided between those that arise because a business occupies a property, and those that arise from actual business operaions. Occupier someone who has some degree of control over land or buildings on that land. Main tort acions in relaion to occupaion of property relate to occupiers" liability, nuisance, and trespass. Describes the liability occupiers have to anyone who enters on their land or property. Liability is determined by classifying the visitor as a trespasser, invitee, or contractual entrant. Each class is owed a diferent standard of care. Enacted by alberta, bc, manitoba, nova scoia, ontario and pei. Replaces somewhat obtuse common law of occupiers" liability with a generalized duty of care based on the neighbour" principle. Nuisance any acivity on an occupier"s property that unreasonably and substanially interferes with the neighbour"s rights to enjoyment of the neighbour"s own property.