AFM231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Indictable Offence, False Imprisonment, Malicious Falsehood

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM231
• Professor: Robert Timberg

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O(cid:272)(cid:272)upiers" lia(cid:271)ility: the liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property. Invitee any person who comes onto the property to provide the occupier with a benefit: store customers, delivery personnel must warn them of unusual dangers. If trespassed is a kid, courts can mitigate harshness of result. Legislative provides for a high duty of care to be owed to entrants who are on property with express or implied permission. Occupier must not create deliberate harm to trespassers, especially children. The tort of nuisance: nuisance a(cid:374)(cid:455) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) o(cid:374) a(cid:374) o(cid:272)(cid:272)upiers"" propert(cid:455) that u(cid:374)reaso(cid:374)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) a(cid:374)d su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)tiall(cid:455) i(cid:374)terferes (cid:449)ith the (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)our"s rights to e(cid:374)jo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)our"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) propert(cid:455). Torts involving customers: assault threat of i(cid:373)(cid:373)i(cid:374)e(cid:374)t ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al har(cid:373) (cid:271)(cid:455) distur(cid:271)i(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s se(cid:374)se of se(cid:272)urit(cid:455), battery intentional inflection of harmful or offensive physical contact. Contact need not cause actual harm: false imprisonment unlawful detention, physical restraint, or coercion by psychological means.