BUL 3310 FSU exam 2 vocab Questions and Answers 2024/2025

Tort → A wrongful act committed by one person against another person or his or her property Negligence → Failure to do that which an ordinary, reasonable, prudent person would do, or the doing of some act that an ordinary, prudent person would not do Strict liability → The doctrine under which a party may be required to respond to tort damages, without regard to that party's fault Compensatory damages → A sum of money the court imposes on a defendant as compensation for the plaintiff because the defendant has injured the plantiff by breach of a legal duty Punitive damages → Damages by way of punishment that are allowed by the court as the result of an injury caused y a wrong that is willful and malicious Joint and several → Two or more persons have an obligation that binds them individually as well as jointly. The obligation can be enforced either by joint action against all of them or by separate actions against one or more Trespass 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel! 1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 24 / 2 0 2 5 → An injury to the person, property, or rights of another person committed by actual force and violence or under such circumstances that the law will infer that the injury was caused by force or violence Chattel → A very broad term, derived from the word cattle and includes every kind of property that is not real property Nuisance → Generally, any continuous or continued conduct that causes annoyance, inconvenience, or damage to person or property (usually applies to unreasonable, wrongful use of property, causing material discomfort, hurt, and damage to the person or property of another Libel → The publication of a falsehood about a person by printing, writing signs, or pictures for the purpose of injuring the reputation and good name of such person Slander → An oral utterance of a false statement that injured the reputation of another Duty → A legal obligation imposed by general law or voluntarily imposed by the creation of a binding promise Right → The phrase legal right is a correlative of the phrase legal duty. A person has a legal right if, upon the breach of the corresponding legal duty, that person can secure a remedy in a judicial proceeding Res ipsa loquitur 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel! 1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 24 / 2 0 2 5 → The thing speaks for itself, rebuttable presumption that a defendant was negligent Negligence per se → Negligence shown through the violation of a statute or ordinance Proximate cause → The negligent