NALA Torts Exam Questions & Answers 100% CORRECT 2024/2025
Black's Law Dictionary of Tort - ANSWERSA private or civil wrong or injury, other than a breach of contract, for which the court will provide a remedy in the form of an action for damages
Comes from the Latin word torquere (to twist),...
Black's Law Dictionary of Tort - ANSWERSA private or civil wrong or injury, other than a breach of
contract, for which the court will provide a remedy in the form of an action for damages
Comes from the Latin word torquere (to twist), tortus (twisted), or tortum (wrong) or the French word
(wrong or fault)
History of Tort Law in the US - ANSWERSCame from the Germanic system of fining people for
wrongdoing
Current tort law is created through English Common Law and through statutory law
Differences between Contract law and Tort law - ANSWERSContract Law
- involves primary and secondary obligations
- obligations are created by the parties
- subject to privity (only the parties in the agreement can sue or be sued)
- compensation is forward looking
Tort Law
- involves primary and secondar obligations
- obligations imposed on the basis of circumstances
- obligations imposed by law - apply even if the parties are strangers
- compensation is backward looking
Tort - ANSWERSA private wrong that can be intentional or not intentional which occurs by one party
creating some type of harm to the other party
Tortsfeasor - ANSWERSThe person who commits the act that caused the harm
,Elements of a Tort - ANSWERS1. The existence of a legal duty
2. Breach of that duty
3. A casual relationship between the plaintiff damage and the defendant's act (defendant's act caused
the injury)
4. Damage or injury
Legal Duty - ANSWERSThe responsibility to other people to act according to the law
Breach of duty - ANSWERSTo break or fail to observe a standard of care
Damage - ANSWERSA loss or harm that is the result of injury to a person, property, or reputation
Damage that a plaintiff could suffer in tort law - ANSWERSPhysical harm
Property damage
Monetary loss
Emotional distress
Damages - ANSWERSThe award of compensation given to the plaintiff who was harmed
Causation - ANSWERSThe cause and effect relationship between the act or omission and the damage
alleged in a tort
Two types of Legal Causation - ANSWERS1. Actual cause/Cause-in-fact
2. Proximate cause/legal cause
Actual Cause (Cause in Fact) - ANSWERSLess complicated and very straightforward, occurs when the
actions of the defendant are the actual reason for the outcome or harm to the plaintiff
Proximate Cause (Legal Cause) - ANSWERSAn event that is related enough to an injury that the court
determines that the event was the cause of the injury
, Does not have to be the closest cause in time
Injury was foreseeable or expected
Sin qua non - ANSWERSMeans "without which it could not be done"
Is an essential action, condition, or ingredient for the result to occur
Known as "but for" cause
Interventining cause - ANSWERSAn event that occurs after the tortfeasor's initial wrong act and before
the damage to the plaintiff
The connection between the wrong act and the damage to the plaintiff is broken
Superseding cause - ANSWERSAn unforeseeable, abnormal, or unpredictable event that leads to a harm
Categories of Torts - ANSWERS1. Intentional Torts (performed on purpose)
2. Negligent Torts (not on purpose, but cause by a lack of reasonable care)
Intentional Tort - ANSWERSTort in which the defendant means to commit an act and cause harm
Intent - ANSWERSA state of mind to cause an act
Motive - ANSWERSThe reason why a person wanted to cause an act
Types of Intentional Torts against Persons - ANSWERSDignitary Tort/Appropriation
Assault
Battery
False Imprisonment
Fraud
Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED)
Defamation
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