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TOTTED
A good debt to the crown, i.e., a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell; Mozley & Whitley. Totum prsefertur unicuique parti. 3 Coke, 41. The whole is preferable to any single part. … [Read more...] about TOTTED
TORTFEASOR
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort. … [Read more...] about TORTFEASOR
TORT-FEASOR
A wrongdoer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort ' … [Read more...] about TORT-FEASOR
TORTIOUS
An act that constitutes a tort. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Wrongful; of the nature of a tort. Formerly certain modes of conveyance (e.g., feoffments, fines, etc.) had the effect of passing not merely the estate of the person making the conveyance, but the whole fee simple, to the injury of the person really entitled to the fee; and they were hence called … [Read more...] about TORTIOUS