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Definition of Tort-feasor
1. Noun. A party who has committed a tort.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tort-feasor
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. ..."