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tortfeasors

tortfeasors is the plural of tortfeasor.

Meaning of tortfeasor

Noun

tortfeasor (plural tortfeasors)

  1. A person who commits a tort.
    • […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law

Questions about tortfeasors

What is tortfeasors the plural of?
Tortfeasors is the plural of tortfeasor.

Words near tortfeasors in the dictionary

  1. torten
  2. tortes
  3. tortest
  4. tortfeasance
  5. tortfeasor
  6. tortfeasors
  7. torticid
  8. torticids
  9. torticollar
  10. torticollic
  11. torticollis

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