tort
IPA: tˈɔrt
noun
- (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.]
adjective
- (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.
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Examples of "tort" in Sentences
- The act must have the essence of a tort.
- It is a forerunner of the modern law of tort.
- The claim was brought in contract and in tort.
- First, the sexual assault falls under the tort.
- The company was found liable in contract and tort.
- The Court rejected the tort of breach of statutory duty.
- The presumptive rule for tort is that the proper law applies.
- In much of the Western world, the measure of tort liability is negligence.
- United States tort law comprises all of the various tort laws of the states.
- In much of the western world, the touchstone of tort liability is negligence.
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