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tortfeasor

or tort-fea·sor

[tawrt-fee-zer, -zawr, -fee-]
noun Law.
  1. a person who commits a tort.
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Origin of tortfeasor

1650–60; < Anglo-French tortfesor wrongdoer (French tortfaiseur). See tort, feasance, -or2
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British Dictionary definitions for tort-feasor

tort-feasor

noun
  1. law a person guilty of tort
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Word Origin for tort-feasor

C17: from Old French, literally: wrongdoer, from tort + faiseur, from faire to do
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Word Origin and History for tort-feasor

tortfeasor

n.

1650s, from Old French tortfesor, from tort "wrong, evil" (see tort) + -fesor "doer," from Latin facere "to make" (see factitious).

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