TORTURE

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...] about TORTURE

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...] about TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE

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

A wrongdoer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort ' … [Read more...] about TORT-FEASOR

A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort. … [Read more...] about TORTFEASOR