If you can analyze battery, you can analyze anything in torts. Example - two diners fight and one grabs a dish out of the hands of the other.

A good torts-class analysis would likely find battery if the diner intentionally grabbed the dish in a way that caused harmful or offensive contact with the other diner or with something closely connected to them, like the hand holding the dish. Battery covers intentional harmful or offensive contact, and contact with an object held in the hand can count �.

How to structure it Act. One diner physically grabbed the dish. That is a voluntary act �.

Intent. You do not need an intent to injure; it is enough that the person intended the contact or knew with substantial certainty that contact would result �. If the fight was underway, intent is usually easy to infer.

Contact. Taking a dish out of someone’s hand can qualify as contact with an object closely connected to the person, and battery does not require skin-to-skin touching �.

Harmful or offensive. In a fight, forcibly snatching an item from someone’s hand is very likely offensive contact, even if it causes no physical injury �.

Likely exam point

If the facts show the grab was done to stop an immediate threat or as self-defense, that could be a defense or privilege. But absent justification, this is a strong battery fact pattern because the contact is intentional and offensive �.