Intentional Torts

• False Imprisonment
• Assault 
• Trespass to Land
• Battery 
• IIED
• Trespass to Chattels
• Conversion

 Battery

• Non-Consenual 
• Touching
• Intent (substantial certainty)

Assault

• Non-consenual 
• Threat or use of force 
• Intent 
• Imminent apprehension of harm 
• No physical injuries must be present

Trespass to Land

• Non-consenual
• Intent: intent to do harm or substantial certainty of immediate consequence
• Owenership: who had the exclusive right to possession of the property?
• Entry (includes projecting an object onto someone else's property
• No requirement for damages

Dougherty v. Stepp

Trespass to Chattels

• Any intentional interference with a person's use or posession of a chattel. 
• Non-consenual
• Intent
• Ownership
• Interference
• Object must be taken out of the immediate possession
• The act must cause some damages (damage great enough, may rise to conversion)

Conversion Definition

The wrongful possession or disposition of another's property as if it were one's own; an act or series of acts of willful interference, without lawful jusitification, with an item of property in a manner inconsistent with another's right, whereby that other person is deprived of the use and possession of the property.

Conversion Elements

• Better right to ownership
• Act of changing the chattel from one form to another
• You only need intent to take possession of the property
• Owner must be deprived of the use and possession of the property

False Imprisonment

• Restraint of a person in a bounded area without justification or consent.
• Intent
• Non-consenual
• Actual duress
• Knowledge/Awareness of imprisonment
• Must have a casual link

Intentional Infliction of

Emotional Distress

• Intentionally or recklessly causing another person severe emotional distress through ones's extreme or outrageous conduct. 
• Extreme or Outrageous conduct
• Misrepresentation of a material fact (P must rely on material fact)
• Conduct that is directed at another
• Intent to give a false impression
• Resulting in severe emotional distress or bodily injury