Example Of Intentional Tort Law

Tort law is it intentional or is it unintentional, how do you know? Tort law is “A body of rights, obligations, and remedies that is applied by courts in civil proceedings this is to provide relief to those who suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others” (The Free Dictionary). The word tort is a french word meaning a wrong and a tort is classified as intentional or unintentional. Tort law is used for a party who is injured to bring a civil lawsuit against the defendant or wrong doer. The party who sues can receive a monetary reward for damages that occurred to the person who brought the civil lawsuit onto the wrong doer.
Intentional tort is one half of the tort law that protects people from “restraint, unauthorized touching, and any other contact that is not authorized” (112, Cheeseman). One example of intentional tort is battery, which is “ Unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with a person who causes you injury, indirect physical contact is also battery as long as the end result is injury” (113, Cheeseman). This is just one example and there are many more such as assault, false imprisonment, shoplifting, invasion of the right to privacy, and many more. The difference between an intentional tort and an

One element is duty that the defendant owed legal duty to a plaintiff and the defendant did not follow through with the agreed duty, The next element is known as breach of duty which is when a defendant does something or doesn’t do something that they said they were going to do. The third element is called causation which means a plaintiff must prove a defendant’s negligence caused him or her injury. The fourth element to proving negligence is damages which requires the court or defendant to compensate the plaintiff for his or injuries. These are all the ways to prove negligence in a case between a defendant and