Business Law Chapter 5 Quiz
_____ relieves medical professionals from liability for _____ negligence when they stop and render aid to victims in emergency situations.
A Good Samaritan law; ordinary
_____ is a defense that a defendant can use against a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily enters into or participates in a risky activity that results in injury.
Assumption of the risk
_____ is a doctrine that says that a plaintiff who is partially at fault for his or her own injury cannot recover against the negligent defendant.
Contributory negligence
_____ is a tort in which the presumption of negligence arises because the defendant was in exclusive control of the situation, and the plaintiff would not have suffered injury but for someone's negligence.
Res ipsa loquitur
_____ cause is also called causation in fact.
actual
_____ is the threat of immediate harm or offensive contact, or any action that arouses reasonable apprehension of imminent harm
assault
The _____ doctrine is a special tort rule that imposes liability on a landowner to children who have trespassed onto his or her property with the intent to play on a hazard and are killed or injured while doing so.
attractive nuisance
_____ is unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with another person that causes injury.
battery
Which of the following is NOT a recognized term for a false statement about a competitor's products, services, property, or business reputation?
comercial denunciation
The general test of proximate cause is _____.
foreseeability
_____ negligence is a doctrine that says that a person is liable for harm that is caused by his or her willful misconduct or reckless behavior; in such a case, punitive damages _____ allowed.
gross, are
Which of the following is NOT a required element of a negligence lawsuit?
intent
Which of the following torts is also referred to as the tort of outrage?
intentional infliction of emotional distress
Which of the following are the three categories of torts?
intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability
A false statement that appears in writing or other fixed medium is _____, while an oral defamatory statement is _____.
libel, slander
The violation of a statute that proximately causes an injury is _____.
negligence per se
The doctrine of unintentional tort is commonly referred to as _____ negligence.
ordinary
The law recognizes each person's right to live his or her life without being subjected to unwarranted and undesired publicity. A violation of this right constitutes the tort of invasion of the right to _____.
privacy
Merchant protection statutes are also known as the shopkeeper's _____.
priviledge
_____ cause is also called legal cause.
proximate
Misappropriation of the right to _____ is an attempt by another person to appropriate a living person's name or identity for commercial purposes.
publicity
Which of the following is NOT an element required to prove disparagement?
the defendant made the statement without intent to injure the plaintiff
Which of the following is NOT a required element of fraud?
the wrongdoer was a casual (i., a non-merchant) seller
Under the _____ intent doctrine, the law transfers the perpetrator's intent from the target to the actual victim of the act.
transferred
Tort is the French word for a _____.
wrong
