tortfeasance

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɔːtˌfiːzəns/    美 /ˈtɔ(ə)ɹtˌfiːzəns/|/ˈtɔːɹt-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition, or an act, of doing wrong; the act of committing a tort. uncountable
    — The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste there, in consequence of which, he has been unable to make use of his commonable profits in as ample and beneficial a manner as he otherwise might.

词源

From Anglo-Norman tortfesance, from Old French tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesance (“act, action, deed”).
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