Step into Episode 5 of the Study for the Bar in Your Car podcast, where your AI hosts, Claude and Ma, navigate the intricate world of intentional torts. Drawing directly from Angela’s meticulously compiled notes—the very foundation of this series, as Angela herself is deep in bar exam preparation—we dissect the often-confused but critically distinct torts of trespass to chattels and conversion.

This episode commences by solidifying your understanding of the foundational elements for any intentional tort: a volitional act by the defendant, their general intent (meaning they either desired the act's consequences or knew with substantial certainty they would occur, with mistake being no defense), and causation.

We then meticulously explore trespass to chattels, defined as an intentional interference with someone's person ...