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tort
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB commit ▪ This causes no problem, as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . ▪ Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort . ▪ Note that ...
Usage examples of tort.
Consequently, the State courts were deprived of jurisdiction of a great number of cases arising out of maritime contracts and torts over which they had exercised jurisdiction prior to 1866.
The third law applied to insults, batteries, wounds, blows, torts, effusion of blood, and similar injuries inflicted at the season of the Nativity, the week of Pasque, and at Pentecost.
Clay Carter, the so-called newest King of Torts, received a taste of his own medicine yesterday when he was sued by some disgruntled clients.
So I went back to college and crammed up on artificial intelligence law and ethics, the jurisprudence of uploading, and recursive tort.
It was in old French, and ran somewhat in this way: Or avant, entre nous tous freres Battons nos charognes bien fort En remembrant la grant misere De Dieu et sa piteuse mort Qui fut pris en la gent amere Et vendus et trais a tort Et bastu sa chair, vierge et dere Au nom de ce battons plus fort.
It held that although an officer in such a situation is not immune from suits for his own torts, yet his official action, though tortious cannot be enjoined or diverted, since it is also the action of the sovereign.
Every potential client had received a professionally done packet touting the exploits of the newest King of Torts.
He had read about mass torts but had no idea its practitioners were such an organized and specialized group.
Lawyers in the bunch wanted to talk about the joys of mass torts while pressing close to Ridley.
Mass torts are a scam, a consumer rip-off, a lottery driven by greed that will one day harm all of us.
Kings of Torts would be hauled in and stripped naked before the juries.
Clay Carter, the King of Torts, who, as we all know, has never tried a tort case.
She was in my torts class last fall and has spent most of her time since on her twin loves: our legal-aid clinic, where she helps welfare mothers avoid eviction, and her collection of statistics, by which she hopes to show that the white race is headed for self-destruction, a prospect that gladdens her.
I must schedule makeup classes for torts and for my seminar, which I am missing for this entire week, and still find time to finish the overdue revised draft of my article on mass tort litigation for the law review, which I originally planned to pursue this past weekend.
As I sat in my office preparing for my torts class following the baffling conversation with Stuart Land, I felt its call.