Section Five

10 points

Complete Exercise 10 in the Workbook.

1. Name a tort which may also be prosecuted as a crime.
2. Name a tort for which there must be an intent to harm.
3. Name a tort for which there does not have to be an intent to harm.
4. If a runner for a law office causes a wreck and injures others while delivering documents to the courthouse, who may be liable and why?
5. If a passerby is injured in an attempt to help a child who is being attacked by a neighbor's dog, who is liable and why?
6. If while in a store, a patron ignores a "wet floor" caution sign, slips and falls, injuring himself, who may be liable and why?
7. If the same person is blind, does it make any difference?
8. If a person is injured at a swimming pool when hit by another swimmer doing a "cannonball" into the pool, and there are signs warning that nolifeguardis on duty, who is liable and why?
9. Can gossiping be a tort? How and why?
10. Can talking a friend into breaking the lease on an office building be a tort? How and why?