Contextualizebeta

quasi-tort

noun

Etymology

From quasi- + tort.

  1. derived from *terkʷ-✻ — “to spin; to turn”
  2. derived from tortus — “crooked; twisted”
  3. derived from tortum — “injustice, wrong”
  4. derived from tort — “misdeed, wrong”
  5. inherited from tort — “(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”
  6. prefixed as quasi-tort — “quasi + tort”

Definitions

  1. An unusual tort action on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which…

    An unusual tort action on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which cannot be classified strictly as negligence in a personal duty resulting in a tort, nor as a contractual duty resulting in a breach of contract, but rather some other kind of duty recognizable by the law.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quasi-tort. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA