tortin a sentence
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Tort reform seeks to limit the liability of a companies in many situations.
tort = any act for which legal damages can be sought
- The elections attract campaign contributions from business interests seeking tort reform or from trial lawyers who want to protect large civil verdicts, but since most voters are unschooled in these areas, the campaigns invariably focus on crime and punishment.† (source)
- "Did the whistle blow?" asked Sean, who could have made a good living as a tort lawyer.† (source)
- "I didn't help her tort—"† (source)
- The Afrikaans word for "torch" is toorts, very similar to tort, and I explained to him that in English tort was a branch of law not a burning stick of wood that could be used to set off a bomb.† (source)
- To this day I couldn't stomach cherry brandy, not even in the torts my mother loved from Milton's Market.† (source)
- Staring out the window, Litvinoff imagined the two thousand copies of The History of Love as a flock of two thousand homing pigeons that could flap their wings and return to him to repot>< him tort on how many tears shed, how many laughs, how many passages read aloud, how many cruel closings of the cover after reading barely a page, how many never opened at all.† (source)
- Robert Lyle was a senior associate with Bertram, Bertram, Hudson and Slovens, a Boston law firm that had fought its first tort case in British court.† (source)
- But I'd be committing a tort.† (source)
- One of the first things I had done after arriving at Pretoria Local was to send a letter to the authorities notifying them of my intention to study and requesting permission to purchase a copy of the Law of Torts, part of my syllabus.† (source)
- He says it's a tort.† (source)
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- I was playing it all from my book on torts, boning up for the bar exam.† (source)
- Then, bursting suddenly into the study, he found Elk Duncan, with unaccustomed eye bent dully upon a page of Torts, a bright bird held by the stare of that hypnotic snake, the law.† (source)
- In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.† (source)
- Ce qui n'est pas beau a tort d'être; La beauté n'aime que la beauté, Avril tourne le dos a Janvier~.† (source)
- BLOOM: (Obdurately) Sirs, take notice that by the law of torts you are bound over in your own recognisances for six months in the sum of five pounds.† (source)
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