Torts Quiz

[jeffjoe]

A duty is owed to a person that a reasonable person would foresee unreasonable harm.


Trick question:
Under the rule of sevens, does a 20 year old have the capacity to consent?

[jeffjoe]

Which of the following cannot be converted:

A) Land
B) Sales Route
C) Dubya
D) Bank Account

[Slyone]

Rule of 7s doesn't apply to adults, only to minors....seeks to determine maturity.
Consent is a defense, but it can be destroyed through scope, capacity etc.
Sales route cannot be converted. Dubya is a lost cause.

A duty is owed to a person that a reasonable person would foresee unreasonable harm.


Trick question:
Under the rule of sevens, does a 20 year old have the capacity to consent?

[jeffjoe]

I told you it was a trick question.  Rule of sevens goes to 21, but age of majority is 18

so strictly speaking....

Rule of 7s doesn't apply to adults, only to minors....seeks to determine maturity.
Consent is a defense, but it can be destroyed through scope, capacity etc.
Sales route cannot be converted. Dubya is a lost cause.

A duty is owed to a person that a reasonable person would foresee unreasonable harm.


Trick question:
Under the rule of sevens, does a 20 year old have the capacity to consent?

[Slyone]

When is a passenger under legal duty to render aid when he is involved in an accident?

[jeffjoe]

Not as far as I can remember.

[Slyone]

correct, at least in TN.

[jeffjoe]

OK.  I listened to the lecture while driving and I have a better answer.

When you violate a statute
and the act is the cause of the harm
and the harm is the type of harm the statute is intended to prevent
and P is in the class of people intended to protect

When is someone "negligent per se"?

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it is when you break a law in the performance of a tort.

[jeffjoe]

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider and sat down besider her
and frightened miss muffet away.

What tort did the spider commit?

[edythec]

You have been studying way tooooooooo long!