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Tort

noun

(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought. Synonym: civil wrong.

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"Tort" Quotes from Famous Books

... heedless, because her mind was preoccupied. She hated herself, and suffered more from sorrow than even at the first moment, for now she felt what it was to have no one to tame her, no eye over her; she found herself going a tort et a travers all the morning, and with no one to set her right. Since it was so the first day, what ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

Words linked to "Tort" : law, actus reus, alienation of affection, trespass, wrongful conduct, jurisprudence, tort-feasor, civil wrong, wrongdoing, invasion of privacy, misconduct, libel