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Tortious

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Adjective

1. tortious

of or pertaining to the nature of a tort

Example Sentences:
'tortious acts'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tortious

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adjective
law
having the nature of or involving a tort; wrongful

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Tortious

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adjective
Law
of or involving a tort

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tortious

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n.
Law
A wrong that is committed by someone who is legally obligated to provide a certain amount of carefulness in behavior to another and that causes injury to that person, who may seek compensation in a civil suit for damages.

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