tort
a wrongful act that can be brought before a civil court
TRANSLATION
tort = zivilrechtliches Delikt --- GOOGLE INDEX tort: approximately 16,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
By sweeping snow from one part of the pavement to another, if done in a manner that caused injury to someone, there is a chance legal action could be taken against you on the basis you had created a nuisance under TORT law.
(BBC News)
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The TORT reform that Texas passed in 2003 made it more difficult for patients to win damages in any health care setting, but especially emergency rooms.
(New York Times)
(BBC News)
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The TORT reform that Texas passed in 2003 made it more difficult for patients to win damages in any health care setting, but especially emergency rooms.
(New York Times)
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tort
noun
- an action that is wrong but which can be dealt with in a civil, rather than criminal, court
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Although they say revenge is sweet, tort is not to be confused with "torte" which is a round flat sweet cake, often with cream and fruit on top of or inside it. It stems from the Old French tort and from the Middle Latin tortum, meaning "injustice or wrong."
Tort is a civil wrong or wrongful act, whether intentional or accidental, from which injury occurs to another. Torts include all negligence cases as well as intentional wrongs which result in harm. Therefore tort law is one of the major areas of law (along with contract, real property and criminal law) and results in more civil litigation than any other category.
Some intentional torts may also be crimes, such as assault, battery, wrongful death, fraud, conversion (a euphemism for theft) and trespass on property and form the basis for a lawsuit for damages by the injured party. Defamation, including intentionally telling harmful untruths about another - either by print or broadcast (libel) or orally (slander) - is a tort and used to be a crime as well.
(adapted from www.law.com)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"One of my favourite John Grisham novels is "King of Torts."
noun
- an action that is wrong but which can be dealt with in a civil, rather than criminal, court
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Although they say revenge is sweet, tort is not to be confused with "torte" which is a round flat sweet cake, often with cream and fruit on top of or inside it. It stems from the Old French tort and from the Middle Latin tortum, meaning "injustice or wrong."
Tort is a civil wrong or wrongful act, whether intentional or accidental, from which injury occurs to another. Torts include all negligence cases as well as intentional wrongs which result in harm. Therefore tort law is one of the major areas of law (along with contract, real property and criminal law) and results in more civil litigation than any other category.
Some intentional torts may also be crimes, such as assault, battery, wrongful death, fraud, conversion (a euphemism for theft) and trespass on property and form the basis for a lawsuit for damages by the injured party. Defamation, including intentionally telling harmful untruths about another - either by print or broadcast (libel) or orally (slander) - is a tort and used to be a crime as well.
(adapted from www.law.com)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"One of my favourite John Grisham novels is "King of Torts."
