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Dian,a clerk at an Entertainment Unlimited store,takes a DVD player from the store without permission.Dian is liable for

A) appropriation.
B) benefiting an employee.
C) conversion.
D) wrongful interference with a business relationship.

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Jean is playing a computer game on a bad disk that melts in her drive,starting a fire that injures her hands.Jean files a suit against K-Tech,Inc.,the game's manufacturer.K-Tech is held liable under the doctrine of strict liability.A significant application of this doctrine is in the area of

A) cyber torts.
B) intentional torts.
C) product liability.
D) unintentional torts.

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A failure to return personal property is conversion even if the rightful owner consented to the initial taking.

Disparagement of property is another term for slander of quality.

As a joke,Jem takes Kyla's business law textbook and hides it so that Kyla cannot find it during the week before the exam.Jem may have committed

To avoid liability for negligence,a business owner must protect its patrons against all risks.

Proximate cause exists when the connection between an act and an injury is strong enough to justify imposing liability.

Louis-larger and stronger than Mica-threatens to hit Mica before hitting and injuring him.Mica files a suit against Louis for assault and battery.Mica will most likely recover for

Nico is a passenger in a car driven by Owen,whose negligence causes an accident,injuring himself.Nico,uninjured,accompanies Owen to Parkside Hospital in an ambulance.The ambulance is hit by a car driven by Quin,injuring Nico.Nico files a suit against Owen,whose best defense is

False imprisonment occurs when a person restrains another intentionally and without justification.

The public disclosure of private facts about a person is not an invasion of privacy if it is done without the person's knowledge or consent.

Leon files a suit against Moira,a medical doctor,alleging negligence.As a physician,Moira is held to the standard of

Joy invites Ken into her apartment.Ken commits trespass to land if he

For purposes of establishing negligence,causation in fact exists if an injury would have occurred even without the defendant's act.

To commit an intentional tort,one person must intend to harm a certain other person.

The doctrine of negligence per se applies if an event causing harm does not normally occur in the absence of negligence.

Caleb is driving a car in which Dotty is a passenger when an accident occurs.Caleb and Dotty are emotionally rattled,but neither is physically hurt.Caleb is not liable to Dotty on a negligence theory because

Reaching for a bottle of soda from a display in a Bargain Mart store,Cody slips in a puddle of spilled soda and falls,suffering an injury.Bargain Mart's employees are not aware of the spilled soda until Cody falls.In a suit against Bargain Mart,Cody will most likely

A party cannot recover damages for severe emotional distress absent a showing of physical injury.

The purpose of tort law is to provide remedies when various protected interests have been invaded.