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Assault and Battery
In personal injury law cases, assault and battery are know as "intentional torts," meaning that they are personal injuries that are purposefully inflicted on one person by another. Click on the links below for in-depth legal information on assault and battery.
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- What are intentional torts?
- Someone broke into my house in the middle of the night and attacked me. I chased and knocked down the culprit running down the street. Will I be liable to him?
- My neighbor fired his shotgun to scare a solicitor whom he did not want coming to his door. One of the pellets grazed a passerby. Will my neighbor be liable?
- What is the tort of assault?
- A security guard in a store suspected me of shoplifting and detained me. I have heard about something called false imprisonment. Do I have an action for that?
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