The following are some essential Tort terms (without descriptions) listed in alphabetical order:

Absolute Privileges

Abuse of Process

Actual Cause

Actual Cause or Cause in Fact

Andrews Rule on Duty

Assault

Assumption of the Risk

Attractive Nuisance Doctrine

Battery

Business Invitee

Cardozo Rule on Duty

Charitable Immunity

Civil Wrong

Colloquium

Comparative Negligence

Concurrent Tortfeasors

Consent

Constant Trespasser Upon a Limited Area

Contribution

Contributory Negligence

Conversion

Deceit

Defamation

Defense of Defense of Others

Defense of Legal Authority

Defense of Necessity

Defense of Prevention of Crime

Defense of Property

Defense of Recovery of Property

Defense of Self-Defense

Defenses of Intentional Torts

Dependent Intervening Act

Dispargement

Doctrine Test

Duty Owed by a Good Samaritan

Duty Owed to a Business Invitee

Duty Owed to a Constant Trespasser Upon a Limited Area

Duty Owed to a Guest Passenger

Duty Owed to a Rescuer

Duty Owed to a Trespasser

Duty Owed to Licensee

Duty Owed to the Child Trespasser

Duty Owed to Those Injured by Drunk Driver

Duty Owed to Persons Off the Premises

Elements of Negligence

Fair Comment Privilege

False Imprisonment

Family Purpose Doctrine

Fresh Pursuit

General Damages

General Duty

Governmental Immunity

Husband-Wife Immunity

Indemnity

Independent Intervening Act

Inducement and Innuendo

Infliction of Mental Distress

Intentional Infliction of Mental Distress

Intentional Torts

Interference with an Economic Relation

Invasion of Privacy

Join and Several Liability

Join Tortfeasors

Last Clear Chance Doctrine

Libel

Libel Per Quod

Libel Per Se

Licensee

Loss of the Benefit of the Bargain Theory Misrepresentation

MacPherson V Buick

Malicious Prosecution

Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation and Fraud

Natural Conditions

Negligence

Negligence Per Se

Negligent Misrepresentation

Negligent Supervision

New York Times v Sullivan

Nuisance Public vs Private

Omission to Act

Out of Pocket Damages (Misrepresentation)

Owner Liability Statues

Parent-Child Immunity

Pre-Natal Injuries

Prima Facie

Private Nuisance

Products Liability

Products Liability (Breach of Warranty)

Products Liability (Negligence)

Products Liability (Strict Liability)

Proximate Cause

Public Invitee

Public Nuisance

Punitive or Exemplary Damages

Qualified Privileges

Re-entry Upon Land Aspect

Reasonableness

Reasonable Appearances Jurisdictions (defense of other)

Recapture of Chattel Aspect

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Retraction Requirement

Rowland v Christian

Rylands v Fletcher

Shopkeeper’s Rule Aspect

Slander

Slander Per Se

Special Damages

Step-in-Shoes Jurisdiction Defense of Others

Strict Liability

Substantial Certainty Doctrine

Substantial Factor

Successive Tortfeasors

Survival Statutes

The “But For” Test of Avoidable Consequence

Transferred Intent Doctrine

Trespass

Trespass Ab Initio

Trespass to Chattel

Trespass to Land

Trespasser

Vicarious Liability

Wrongful Birth

Wrongful Death Statutes