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  2. Trespass in English law - Wikipedia

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    Trespass in English law is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to goods, and trespass to land.. Trespass to the person comes in three variants: assault, which is "to act in such a way that the claimant believes he is about to be attacked"; [1] battery, "the intentional and direct application of force to another person"; [2] and false ...

  3. Trespass - Wikipedia

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    Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land. Trespass to the person historically involved six separate trespasses: threats, assault, battery, wounding, mayhem (or maiming), and false imprisonment. [ 1 ]

  4. United States tort law - Wikipedia

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    In tort law, there are generally five areas in which transferred intent is applicable: battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, and trespass to chattels. Generally, any intent to cause any one of these five torts which results in the completion of any of the five tortious acts will be considered an intentional act, even if the ...

  5. Battery (tort) - Wikipedia

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    In common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional, or reckless (or, in Australia, negligently [1]) and voluntarily bringing about a harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them, such as a bag or purse, without legal consent.

  6. Outline of tort law - Wikipedia

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    Torts (trespass) against the person – category of torts that describes a civil wrong that causes physical harm to the complainant: . Assault (tort) – intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.

  7. Tort - Wikipedia

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    There is some overlap between criminal law and tort. For example, in English law an assault is both a crime and a tort (a form of trespass to the person). A tort allows a person to obtain a remedy that serves their own purposes (for example, the payment of damages or the obtaining of injunctive relief). Criminal actions on the other hand are ...

  8. Letang v Cooper - Wikipedia

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    Negligence, personal injury, trespass to the person Letang v Cooper [1964] EWCA Civ 5 (15 June 1964) is an English Court of Appeal judgment, by which it was decided that negligently caused personal injury cannot be recovered under the trespass to the person , but the tort of negligence must be tried instead.

  9. Trespasser - Wikipedia

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    In the law of tort, property, and criminal law a trespasser is a person who commits the act of trespassing on a property, that is, without the permission of the owner. Being present on land as a trespasser thereto creates liability in the trespasser, so long as the trespass is intentional.