Definition of Tort-feasor

1. Noun. A party who has committed a tort.

Exact synonyms: Tortfeasor
Generic synonyms: Party

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tort-feasor

torsions
torsive
torsive occlusion
torsiversion
torsk
torsks
torso
torsoclusion
torsoes
torsoless
torsolike
torsor
torsors
torsos
tort
tort-feasor (current term)
torta
tortas
torte
torteau
torteaus
tortellini
tortellinis
tortelloni
torten
tortes
tortfeasance
tortfeasor
tortfeasors
torticollar

Literary usage of Tort-feasor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Quasi Contracts by Frederic Campbell Woodward (1913)
"It is fundamental that assumpsit cannot be maintained against a tort-feasor unless it appears that he has reaped a benefit from his wrongful act.1 In the ..."

2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"JOINT tort-feasor: admissibility in favor of one, of parol evidence to vary release given to another, 647. release of one of several, releases others, when, ..."

3. Hand-book of the Law of Torts by Edwin Ames Jaggard (1895)
"... negligent.11' Accordingly, in dealing with a tort, it is of increasing im portance to consider how far the state of the mind of a tort feasor >»' Pol. ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"But the rule invoked, i, that the release of one joint tort feasor is a $ release of all, is a rule of the common law, * —in this case, of the*common law of ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations by Henry Osborn Taylor (1902)
"The second rule—that the corporation is responsible for a tort committed in the course of the tort-feasor's bility resting on course of ..."

6. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"... and of a joint tort feasor.—The admissions of a principal debtor are binding upon his surety, provided they are made while the relation of principal and ..."

7. The Science of Law According to the American Theory of Government by Edward L. Campbell (1887)
"... when this classification is adopted, more or less of these modes of committing torts will have to be treated as separate topics. , THE tort-feasor. ..."

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