Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 26 compound words that contain tort. The most common are listed below. Open tort in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- tort lawThe area of law dealing with wrongful acts, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to contracts, which cause injuries and can be remedied in civil courts, usually through the awarding of damages.
- quasi-tortAn unusual tort action on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which cannot be classified strictly as negligence in a personal duty resulting in a tort, nor as a contractual duty resulting in a breach of contract, but …
- toxic tortA tort caused by exposure to a dangerous chemical or other substance.
- de son tortWithout authority or right (to do something).
- trustee de son tortA person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but interferes with the trust as if they were.
- trustees de son tortplural of trustee de son tort: A person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but interferes with the trust as if they were.
- executor de son tortA person who, without legal authority, assumes control of a deceased person's property as if they were executor.
- executors de son tortplural of executor de son tort: A person who, without legal authority, assumes control of a deceased person's property as if they were executor.
Compound words 26
- EurotortA tort relating to the right to repatriation within a national legal system for breaches of directly applicable European Union law.
- nontortNot being or pertaining to a tort.
- tortureThe infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- tortoiseAny of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron) …
- distortTo bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- tortiousWrongful; harmful.
- TortolaAn island of the British Virgin Islands, the largest and most populated.
- contortTo twist in a violent manner.
- torturesplural of torture: The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- TortugaAn island forming part of Haiti.