Torts lecture: Trespass to Chattel and Conversion of Chattel | quimbee.com

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This video is just one of 70 videos in our lecture on torts.
"Torts" table of contents:
1. Introduction
+ Opening Remarks
2. Intentional Torts
+ Intent
+ Battery
+ Assault
+ False Imprisonment
+ Trespass to Land
+ Trespass to Chattel and Conversion of Chattel
+ Examples of Trespass and Conversion of Chattel
+ Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
3. Defenses to Intentional Torts
+ Self-Defense
+ Defending and Retaking Property: Use of Force
+ Defending and Retaking Property: Shopkeeper's Privileges
+ Consent
+ Necessity
4. The Basic Elements of Negligence
+ Introduction to Negligence
5. Negligence: Duty of Care
+ Importance of Duty and the "No Duty to Act" Rule
+ General Reasonable Person Standard
+ Introduction to Professional and Medical Liability
+ Duties of Children and Other Particular Standards of Care
+ Duty to Foreseeable Plaintiffs
+ Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees
+ Examples of the Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees
+ Duties of Landowners to Their Residential Tenants
+ Duties of Landowners to Child Trespassers
+ Introduction to Recreational Use Statutes
+ Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with Plaintiff
+ Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with the Third Person
+ Duty Arising from Risk Creation
+ Duty Arising from a Promise, Undertaking, or Relationship
+ Duties of Those Who Furnish Alcohol for Profit
+ Duties Among Family Members
6. Negligence: Particular Issues
+ Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
+ Slip and Fall Cases
+ Toxic Torts
+ The Firefighter's Rule
+ Good Samaritan Laws
7. Negligence: Breach
+ Evaluating Defendant's Conduct and Establishing Breach
+ Negligence Per Se
+ Res Ipsa Loquitur
8. Negligence: Harm and Actual Causation
+ Actual Harm
+ Tests for Actual Causation
9. Negligence: Proximate Cause
+ Introduction to Proximate Cause
+ Role of Intervening Persons or Forces
+ Relationship Between Proximate Cause and Plaintiff's Fault
10. Defenses to Negligence
+ Contributory Negligence
+ Comparative Fault Schemes
+ Plaintiff's Illegal Activity
+ Assumption of the Risk
+ Statutes of Limitation
11. Vicarious Liability
+ Introduction to Vicarious Liability
+ Respondeat Superior: The Master-Servant Relationship
+ Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Negligence)
+ Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Intentional Torts)
+ Employer Liability for the Torts of Independent Contractors
12. Strict Liability
+ Introduction to Strict Liability
+ Trespassing Animals
+ Nuisance
+ Abnormally Dangerous Activities
+ Defenses to Strict Liability
13. Products Liability
+ Introduction to Products Liability
+ Manufacturing Defects
+ Manufacturing Defects in Food
+ Design Defects
+ Exclusion of Mere Economic Loss
+ Warning or Informational Defects
+ Negligence in Products Liability
+ Strict Liability in Products Liability
+ Defenses to Product Liability
14. Responsibility and Damages
+ Joint and Several Liability
+ Contribution in a Joint and Several Liability System
+ Indemnification, Subrogation, and Satisfaction
+ Compensatory and Punitive Damages
+ Death in Tort Law
+ Avoidable Consequences and Plaintiff's Mitigation of Damages
+ Emotional Distress as Damage
+ Loss of Consortium
15. Economic, Dignitary, and Relational Torts
+ Introduction to Defamation
+ Defamation in Light of the First Amendment
+ Privileges and Defenses to Defamation
+ Damages in Common Law Defamation
16. Conclusion
+ Final Thoughts

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Yeah, actually TtC and Conv are two separate torts under the common law. One way to think of Trespass to Chattels is that you don't have to expend the property such as when someone who uses the company email beyond the scope of their permission. Since the email is not real estate, and in this case no particular value has been assigned to the use of the email, (assuming didn't tie down the server or interfere with bus. ops. for sake of argument) then no conversion has taken place. If some other means under 222A had taken place, the Plaintiff could sue for both conversion on the damages and TtC on the nominal. One must remember that originally TtC and TtL were designed to enforce property rights. The reason I'm here is I'm wondering if anyone can think of any other TtC that does fall into Conversion as well.