15 example sentences using tort.
Tort used in a sentence
Tort in a sentence as a noun
That there's no such thing as a transnational tort claim?
I don't get the people complaining about the tort system.
The tort system didn't create the losses here, the car and the driver created the losses.
As one expert in the film puts it, we'd be better off to adopt the term tort deform.
This is similar to the tort of public disclosure of private facts.
Bill Gates offering you $8 billion dollars is not a tort committed by ABC.
From that point on your interactions with the service are regulated by those terms under contract, tort, and other common law statutes.
As part of his case, he claimed that Kmarts discharge was in bad faith and that, even without a contract, such a termination gave rise to tort liability.
In such cases, the law developed so as to hold such drivers responsible for damages in civil proceedings for the what the law called the "tort" of negligence.
It seems less perverse when you think of tort liability as assignment of the costs of risk, rather than punishment for negligent behavior.
But under tort theories, for instance, the idea of making a victim whole could easily mean compensating her for emotional trauma and the like.
Were the tort system better at holding producers responsible for the harms they create, code writers and their employers would have been more concerned with the harm their code would create.
Sharing involves concurrent use of resources mediated by tort-like systems, rather than property-like systems.
Not just fine-grained subdivision of property rights, but concurrent use mediated by tort-like mechanisms of enforcing "sociable" behavior.
If you say everyone cannot be educated about every issue, fine, I can "follow" PG's votes on wall street reform and grellas's votes on IP tort reform and Schneier's votes on TSA etc just by copying their votes on those issues into my ballot, a permission which I can revoke at any time or on a vote-by-vote basis, as easy as unfollowing them on VoteTwitter.
Tort definitions
(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought