Overview
Our free Torts notes cover everything you need to know for the NCBE Multistate Bar Examination (MBE). From intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, to products liability and defenses, we've got you covered. Whether you're intensively reviewing or looking to solidify specific concepts, these notes provide added peace of mind, knowing that you have a comprehensive resource to help consolidate and revise effectively for the MBE. Think something could be better? Give us a shout on our contact page, and we'll take a look.
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- Civil Procedure
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- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Evidence
- Real Property
- Torts
1. Intentional torts
- Harms to the person
- Assault
- Battery
- False imprisonment
- Infliction of mental distress
- Harms to property interests
- Trespass to land
- Trespass to chattels
- Conversion
- Defenses to claims for physical harms
- Consent
- Privileges and immunities
- Protection of self and others
- Protection of property interests
- Parental discipline
- Protection of public interests
- Necessity
- Incomplete privilege
2. Negligence
- The duty question
- Failure to act
- Unforeseeable plaintiffs
- Obligations to control the conduct of third parties
- The standard of care
- The reasonably prudent person
- Children
- Physically and mentally impaired individuals
- Professional people
- Other special classes
- Rules of conduct derived from statutes and custom
- Problems relating to proof of fault
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Problems relating to causation
- But for and substantial causes
- Harms traceable to multiple causes
- Questions of apportionment of responsibility among multiple tortfeasors
- Joint and several liability
- Limitations on liability and special rules of liability
- Problems relating to remote or unforeseeable causes
- Legal or proximate cause
- Superseding causes
- Claims against owners and occupiers of land
- Claims for mental distress not arising from physical harm
- Other intangible injuries
- Claims for pure economic loss
- Liability for acts of others
- Employees and other agents
- Independent contractors and nondelegable duties
- Defenses
- Contributory fault
- Common law contributory negligence
- Last clear chance
- Various forms of comparative negligence
- Assumption of risk
3. Strict liability and products liability
- Common law strict liability
- Claims arising from abnormally dangerous activities
- Defenses to such claims
- Claims against manufacturers and other defendants arising out of the manufacture and distribution of products
- Defenses to such claims