1.3 Essential Components and Categories of Torts

The categories' classic map: 1. Negligence — the careless harm (the modern law's giant). 2. Intentional torts — the deliberate wrongs: battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land-and-goods, conversion, defamation, the intentional infliction of emotional distress. 3. Strict liability — the no-fault pockets (the dangerous things, the animals, the products — U3.1). 4. Nuisance — the land's enjoyment wrongs (private-and-public). 5. Defamation — the reputation's wrongs (libel-and-slander; the constitutional balance with expression). 6. The economic torts — the trade's wrongs (deceit, passing off, the inducement faces). 7. The newer faces — privacy, harassment, the data wrongs.