Torts

Battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, trespass to chattel, and conversion.

The intentional unlawful, harmful or offensive touching of the person of another.

The intentional threatenting of antoher with a battery and the creating of apprehension of immediate bodily harm in the victim.

Applicable when a defendant, while in the process of committing a battery against one person, unintentionally causes the touching of a third person. In such a case, the defendant's wrongful intent is transferred to include the unintentional victim. The third person can therefore proeceed against the defendant on a battery theory.

Holds that werher the defendant does an act with the realization that it is substantially certain to result in a touching, the defendant is deemed to have intended the result and is liable for the battery.

The intentional confinement of the plaintiff by the defendant, without consent and without legal privilage. 

An entry upon land in the possession of another, without consent and without legal privilage.

The intentional taking or damaging of personal property in the possession of another, without consent and without legal privilage.

An intentional assumption of dominion and control over the personal property of another resulting in a substantial interference with the plaintiff's possessory rights, without consent and without legal privilage. 

An entry upon the land in pssession of antoher under a conferred legal right, and the subsequent abusing of that conferred legal right through the commission of an assault, battery, false imprisonment, or trespass.

Results from an act or conduct by the defendant which unreasonably interferes with the plaintiff's use and enjoyment of his or her property.

Results from an act or conduct by the defendant which is injurious to the public in general. 

Consent, self-defense, defense of others, defense of property, prevention of crime, recovery of property, legal authority, and necessity.

Relates to the plaintiff's state of mind and the existence of express or implied willingness that the defendant should act in the complained manner.

Relates to the general proposition that a person who reasonably believes himself to be threatened with immediate bodily harm may use whatever degree of force is apparently necessary to protect himself or herself.