tortfeasance

Noun

tortfeasance (uncountable)

1. The condition, or an act, of doing wrong; the act of committing a tort.
   • The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste...1824, Humphry W[illiam] Woolrych, “Of Pleading Rights of Common, etc.”, in A Treatise on the Law of Rights of Common, London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, law booksellers, 43, Fleet Street, →OCLC...
   • Among the various matters of which, either from ancient authors or the testimony of grammarians, we know the Thesmothetæ to have had cognizance, are the following— […] Also a great variety of civil actions; as those for the recovery of land, houses, and mesne profits: actions for debt, deposit...1856, Demosthenes, “Appendix IV. The Archons.”, in Charles Rann Kennedy, transl., The Orations of Demosthenes against Leptines, Midias, Androtion, and Aristocrates. Translated, with Notes, &c....

   Synonyms:

   delict, misdemeanor, tort, transgression, crime, delinquency, error, malfeasance, misdeed, misdoing