tort
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- noun
- /tɔrt/
- Specialized
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acto ilícito civil
- Negligence resulting in injury can be grounds for a civil tort claim in court.
- tort law
- tort liability
- tort claim
Whether it's an exam for contracts or con law or torts or whatever.
- Whether it's an exam for contracts or con law or torts or whatever.
- I've been an expert witness in cases involving tort cases, intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Duress as such is seldom recognized as an independent tort.
- Even in something as conventional as a law school torts class, he reinvents what it is to teach.
- The Vogue article describes Kim's house as having a master bedroom the size of quote, an airplane hanger, A pile of books on tort law.
- And so given this, the next question would be how effective is the market's own internal regulatory mechanism, tort law?
Examples
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A wrongful arrest claim is regarded as a part of a tort claim according to Korean courts.
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Generally, damages in tort are awarded simply to restore the plaintiff back to the position he or she was in before tort occurred.
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And this was very close to what we used to have in tort law for a while.
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Thus, the vast majority of mass tort cases are settled by agreement between the parties.
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Beyond the politics and rhetoric of tort reform, is there a "crisis" in civil justice?
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So the general standard for tort liability was negligence.
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The court is concerned with how closely the tort or statutory claims relate to the underlying contract claims.
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For the most part, however, personal injury mass torts continue to be adjudicated outside of the class action arena.
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Further, it involved a high-stakes tort suit against a corporation in which the plaintiff sought punitive damages.
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The classification of marine pollution as a maritime tort has both jurisdictional and substantive relevance.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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An action or not doing something that harms another person and can lead to a lawsuit for money
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tort comes from an old Latin word tortus meaning 'twisted', from torquere 'to twist'. That's why a tort is a 'twisted' or wrong act that causes harm and can make someone legally responsible, and you can see the same root in the words distort and torture.