Tortfeasor

Quick meaning: Tortfeasor is a noun meaning (law) A person who commits a tort.

Meaning

(law) A person who commits a tort.

Example Sentences

Damages paid by the settling tortfeasor which are greater than the pro rata amount can easily be attributed to his desire to avoid legal fees and bad press, or misspeculation about the merits and likely outcome of the case.

[…] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.

Word Forms

• tortfeasors

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include torturer, torturee, trustor, forfeiter, transgressor, tormentor.

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