tort

IPA: tˈɔrt

(law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
(obsolete) An injury or wrong.
(slang) Clipping of tortoise. [Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.]
(slang) Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings”); a tortie. [The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.]

(obsolete) Twisted.
(Britain, dialectal) Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)
Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”)
(nautical) Of a boat: watertight.

Examples of "tort" in Sentences

It also includes a good point about the term tort reform-
Ordinarily attorney's fees are not available in tort claims.
BLITZER: All right, let's talk about what they call tort reform.
Republican: Take out everything and put in tort reform and interstate competition.
First-time filmmaker Susan Saladoff starts where for many Americans, the term "tort reform" first appeared.
Try to avoid the word tort by referring to a case more specifically as a negligence or personal-injury lawsuit.
Some like the term tort deform, which suggests tort deformers, but those terms seem too flip for serious discourse.
Again, there is a well settled test in tort that allows us to discern whether your control over that farming is sufficient to render you liable.