Tort-Feasor:
Name given to a person or persons who have committed a tort.
Tort-Feasor: One who commits a tort.
Tortious: Having the quality of a tort; the wrongdoer.
Expanded Legal Definition of Domitae NaturaeEggshell Skull Doctrine A tort-feasor or a wrongdoer takes his victim as he finds him.
General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the act of a tort-feasor. To call a man a thief, or commit an assault and battery upon his person, are examples of this kind.
A rule of tort law which holds that the tort-feasor is not allowed to deduct from the amount he or she would be held to pay to the victim of the tort, any goods, ...
trespass, when force is used; for the consequential acts of the tort-feasor, e.g., when a man, in consequence of building a dam on his own premises, overflows his neighbor's land; against the relative rights of the party injured, e.g.
DAMAGES, GENERAL
torts. General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the act of a tort-feasor. To call a man a thief, or commit an... more ...
Source Rule: The rule ensures that compensation awarded to a plaintiff in a lawsuit will not be reduced if the plaintiff receives compensation for the same injury from another source, such as insurance. Under the rule, a defendant tort-feasor is ...
 See also: Person, Cause, Court, Wrong, Law
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