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BUSA Final Exam Questions and Answers(Latest Update 2025) 300 Questions
T/F The basic purpose of tort law is to punish criminal
wrongdoers. - Correct Answer ✅ False
Intended to compensate or reimburse a plaintiff for actual
losses. - Correct Answer ✅ compensatory damages
Intended to compensate the plaintiff for quantifiable
monetary losses, such as medical expenses. - Correct
Answer ✅ special damages
Intended to compensate individuals (but not companies) for
the nonmonetary aspects of the harm suffered from a tort,
such as pain and suffering. - Correct Answer ✅ general
damages
Awarded in tort cases to punish the wrongdoer and to deter
others from similar wrongdoing. - Correct Answer ✅
punitive damages
Steps toward tort reform in the federal government and a
number of states include all of the following except:
,BUSA Final Exam Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2025) 300 Questions
a. requiring the losing party to pay both the plaintiff's and the
defendant's expenses.
b. capping the amount that attorneys can collect in
contingency fees.
c. limiting the amount of both punitive damages and general
damages that can be awarded.
d. increasing the burden of proof in negligence cases. -
Correct Answer ✅ increasing the burden of proof in
negligence cases.
Which of the following are the two broad classifications of
torts? Select two.
a. Intentional torts
b. Unintentional torts
c. Criminal wrongs
d. Actionable torts - Correct Answer ✅ Intentional torts
Unintentional torts
T/F Because an intentional tort requires intent, a harmful
motive is required. - Correct Answer ✅ False
,BUSA Final Exam Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2025) 300 Questions
A person who commits a tort is known as a:
a. criminal.
b. instigator.
c. perpetuator.
d. maladjustor.
e. tortfeasor. - Correct Answer ✅ tortfeasor
A person who engages in unexcused and harmful or offensive
physical contact against someone else has committed:
a. conversion.
b. battery.
c. assault.
d. false imprisonment. - Correct Answer ✅ battery
Any intentional and unexcused threat of immediate harmful
or offensive contact. - Correct Answer ✅ assault
, BUSA Final Exam Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2025) 300 Questions
An unexcused and harmful or offensive physical contact
intentionally performed. - Correct Answer ✅ battery
Jill is much stronger than Jack and stares at him in a
menacing way. One day she tells Jack that she is going to
beat him if she ever sees him again. Several hours later she
sees Jack coming out of his house and proceeds to punch him
in the face. Jack will probably bring a lawsuit against Jill:
a. for battery only, because Jack was punched.
b. for assault only, because Jack was punched.
c. for assault and battery, because there was both a threat
and a harmful action. - Correct Answer ✅ for assault and
battery, because there was both a threat and a harmful
action
Which of the following has nothing to do with false
imprisonment?
a. An interference with the freedom to move without
constraint.
b. Intentional confinement or restraint of another person's
activities without justification.
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