Sentence examples for is a tort from inspiring English sources
It is a tort to be tried by a jury.
Quiet confusion was in the air around the entrance to the museum — "What the heck is a tort?" a man whispered to his wife as they walked in.
Among the $3 billion to $4 billion worth of "creative revenues" he has floated is a tort reform plan, sale of the land under the two New York City airports, the privatization of other state assets and the collection of taxes from American Indian reservations and on Internet sales.
Battery and assault require the claimant to establish that the defendant intended to act, while false imprisonment is a tort of strict liability.
Unlike assault and battery, false imprisonment is a tort of strict liability: no intention on the behalf of the defendant is needed, but the imprisonment must be caused by a deliberate act (as decided in Sayers v Harlow Urban District Council, where a faulty lock, not a deliberate act from another party, caused a woman to become trapped in a public toilet) and must be unlawful.
He'd changed his mind: There was no way this wouldn't be a tort disaster.
Lawyers in common law systems are familiar with such norms: murder may be a criminal offence (or slander may be a tort, or certain agreements may be enforceable as contracts…), not because any person or institution uttered a ruling that it should be so, but because the institutions of the legal system customarily treat murder as an offence.
"There was a torts case about whether a bunch of guys on a company bowling team could keep their shirts after getting in a fight with the company.
On the campaign trail in Iowa last fall, theDes Moines Regsiter reported that Santorum continued to push the idea that he would be a tort-reform president, even if it made him unpopular with Washington lobbyists.
Tort liability is a tool that achieves that aim by shifting costs.
