BUL 3310 FSU exam 2 vocab Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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Course
BUL 3310
Institution
BUL 3310
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 und...
→ 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
→ 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
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