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Tortious

Tortious \Tor"tious\, a. [From Tort.]

  1. Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] ``Tortious power.''
    --Spenser.

  2. (Law) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tortious

late 14c., "wrongful, illegal," from Anglo-French torcious (14c.), from stem of torcion, literally "a twisting," from Late Latin tortionem (see torsion, and compare tort). Meaning "pertaining to a tort" is from 1540s.

Wiktionary
tortious

a. 1 (context obsolete English) wrongful; harmful. 2 (context legal English) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

WordNet
tortious

adj. of or pertaining to the nature of a tort; "tortious acts"

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Usage examples of "tortious".

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.

Neither was the entry tortious nor was the arrest which followed in any sense illegal.

Thus goe they both together to their geare,With like fierce minds, but meanings different:For the proud Souldan with presumpteous cheare,And countenance sublime and insolent,Sought onely slaughter and auengement:But the braue Prince for honour and for right,Gainst tortious powre and lawlesse regiment,In the behalfe of wronged weake did fight:More in his causes truth he trusted then in might.