Meanings
plural tortfeasees
- lawA person to whom a tort is committed.
For example, the grantor's material, voluntary conveyance is voidable by his tortfeasee if made shortly after commission of a tort from which an adverse judgment of substantial damages can be reasonably expected.
1940, Reed T. Phalan, “Fraudulent Conveyances - Right of Creditor Whose Cause of Action Accrued After the Debtor's Voluntary Conveyance”, in Michigan Law Review, volume 39, number 2, page 3281 more example
When one person is under tort liability because he culpably created a dangerous situation and another is liable because he failed to discover and remove the danger, the latter person on compensating the tortfeasee will be given full redress against the former[.]
1935, Morton C. Campbell, “Non-Consensual Suretyship”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 45, number 1, page 88
Origin
- Old Frenchtortfesor
- Anglo-Normantortfeasor
- Englishtortfeasor
- Englishtortfeasee
Derived from English tortfeasor, from Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”).
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