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A party who has committed a tort
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tortfeasor
Word definitions for tortfeasor in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A person who commits a tort.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a party who has committed a tort [syn: tort-feasor ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Old French tortfesor , from tort "wrong, evil" (see tort ) + -fesor "doer," from Latin facere "to make" (see factitious ).
Usage examples of tortfeasor.
But where a judgment of dismissal was entered in a federal court in an action against one of two joint tortfeasors, in a State in which such a judgment would constitute an estoppel in another action in the same State against the other tort-feasor, such judgment is not entitled to full faith and credit in an action brought against the other tortfeasor in another State.
In a successful libel action, the author, printer, and publisher are joint tortfeasors, and none of them can indemnify the other.
I got home, Dolores was talking to the refrigerator, mumbling about the effect of a plaintiff from Wisconsin suing joint tortfeasors from Hawaii and New York in Nevada for negligently transplanting a kidney in Florida.
In a successful libel action, the author, printer, and publisher are joint tortfeasors, and none of them can indemnify the other.
Just because it provides these full first party benefits accruing to the injured person regardless of fault or negligence on the part of the covered person, that's where they're claiming immunity from lawsuits like this one without, where is it, without here, without permitting nonduplicative recovery by suit against tortfeasors at common law.