Deck 8: Intentional Torts Injuries to Property

Question 1

Which of the following statements is true with regard to toxic trespass?

A) Trespass to land occurs when toxic substances enter upon another's property.
B) The elements for toxic trespass are the same as those for trespass to land.
C) The intent to trespass can be implied.
D) All of these choices.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Toxic trespass occurs when an ultrahazardous pollutant interferes with a landowner's use of his or her property.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following best illustrates trespass to chattel?

A) Filling your swimming pool with a garden hose connected to your unfriendly neighbor's water supply
B) Taking the complimentary soap and shampoo from your hotel room
C) Taking an unattended umbrella to a department store's lost-and-found department
D) Driving down a barricaded street

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Trespasses to land in which no actual harm comes to the landowner are sometimes called

A) willful and wanton trespasses.
B) technical trespasses.
C) trivial trespasses.
D) trespasses to chattels.

Question 5

CERCLA is the acronym for a federal statute regulating defamation by computer.

Question 6

All of the following are elements of trespass to land except

A) unauthorized entry onto another's real estate.
B) intent to injure another's real property.
C) interfering with an owner's exclusive use of his or her land.
D) entering another's land without permission.

Question 7

A person filing a spurious lien against someone's real estate commits slander of title.

Question 8

Which of the following is not one of the elements included in trespass to chattel?

A) Unauthorized possession or interference with the use of another's chattel
B) Intent to deprive or interfere the owner's possession or use of personal property
C) Owner's nonconsent to the tortfeasor's possession and use of the chattel
D) None of these choices.

Question 9

Taking someone's television without permission is called trespass to chattel.

Question 10

Commercial disparagement involves false statements about a person's business, goods, or services.

Question 11

Dispossession is an important element of slander of title.

Question 12

Trespass to land requires injury to the real estate.

Question 13

Defamation by computer means that computers are used to say libelous things about others.

Question 14

Personal property is often called

A) personal item.
B) chattel.
C) real property.
D) None of these choices.

Question 15

A landowner's exclusive right to use his or her real estate is called

A) dispossession.
B) chattel.
C) livery of seisin.
D) None of these choices.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a federal statute regulating environmental toxins?

A) The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
B) The Environmental Protection Agency
C) The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
D) All of these choices.

Question 17

Trespass to chattel is similar to conversion.

Question 18

How is conversion different from trespass to chattel?

A) Conversion involves real property, and trespass to chattel involves personal property.
B) Conversion is a crime, and trespass to chattel is a tort.
C) Conversion requires the tortfeasor to put the chattel to his or her own use, whereas trespass to chattel does not.
D) There is no difference between them.

Question 19

Conversion requires injury to the real estate.

Question 20

Which of the following constitutes trespass to land?

A) Throwing trash in a neighbor's backyard
B) Looking into a neighbor's second-story window with a telescope
C) Entering a public building on a Sunday to use the public telephone
D) None of these choices.

Question 21

Commercial disparagement includes which of the following?

A) Disparagement of goods
B) Disparagement of services
C) Disparagement of business
D) All of these choices.

Question 22

Defamation by computer is best illustrated by which of the following examples?

A) Writing libelous statements about someone on a computer
B) Erasing public records from a governmental computer database
C) Inputting false information about a person's credit into a computer database
D) All of these choices.

Question 23

Which example best illustrates conversion?

A) Taking someone else's bicycle from a parking rack and riding it across town
B) Stepping into a store after closing hours
C) Having an overdue library book checked out in your name
D) Having your landlord lock you out of your apartment even though you've paid rent and haven't violated the lease

Question 24

In slander of title, the term publication means

A) communication to third parties.
B) recording a deed at the county recorder's office.
C) filing a lien against real estate.
D) None of these choices.

Question 25

Slander of title involves which of the following activities?

A) Making false statements about the quality of a business's goods
B) Making false statements about the quality of a business's services
C) Making false statements about an individual's ownership of property
D) None of these choices.