meaning of tort
1. Mischief; injury; calamity.
2. Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
3. Stretched tight; taut.
4. law any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
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