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Tortious   Listen
adjective
Tortious  adj.  
1.
Injurious; wrongful. (Obs.) "Tortious power."
2.
(Law) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tortious" Quotes from Famous Books



... is such a poisonous thing that it spreads poison on every side, the Court adjudges that William [the lord, who had brought a writ of escheat] do recover his seisin, and that John be in mercy for the tortious detinue." ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell



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