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...]

A civil tort, the act of intentionally causing harm to another by disruption, such as tortious interference with contract by a person who attempts to induce a party who has a contractual relationship with the plaintiff to breach that contract. … [Read more...]

punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates. 2. This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable offence. Law … [Read more...]

Originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. Afterwards given to, and adopted by, one of the two great parliamentary parties which have alternately governed Great Britain since the Revolution in 1688. Wharton. The name was also given, in America, during the struggle of the colonies for independence, to the party of those residents who favored the side of the king and … [Read more...]

In old English practice, A word written by the foreign opposer or other officer opposite to a debt due the king, to denote that it was a good debt; which was hence said to be totted. … [Read more...]