tortfeasor

From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːtˌfiːzə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹtˌfiːzɚ/
• Hyphenation: tort‧fea‧sor

tortfeasor (plural tortfeasors)

1. (law) A person who commits a tort.
   • 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law‎:

     […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.

• cotortfeasor

• tortfeasance