Vocab Unit 3 Torts

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Across
  1. 3. failure of a professional person (physician or lawyer)for proper services because of ignorance/negligence/criminal intent
  2. 6. a promise not to prosecute for a crime in exchange for information/testimony in a criminal matter
  3. 7. Charges advanced in a court by one or more plaintiffs on behalf of a large group of others who have a common interest.
  4. 8. damages requested/awarded in a lawsuit when willful acts were malicious, violent, fraudulent, reckless.
  5. 10. unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or an object
  6. 12. false statement of fact that is harmful to someone's reputation, and published with negligence
  7. 14. threat but no physical/ contact harm
  8. 15. failure to use reasonable care, resulting in injury to someone.
Down
  1. 1. intention to do injury to another. Either expressed or implied
  2. 2. responsible by law; legally answerable
  3. 4. providing with the amount necessary to replace what was lost
  4. 5. sum of money claimed in compensation for a loss or an injury.
  5. 8. a person who brings a case against another in a court of law.
  6. 9. a wrongful act or an infringement of a right
  7. 11. knowingly entering another person's property without permission
  8. 13. enforces a right, imposes a penalty