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  • "Did the whistle blow?" asked Sean, who could have made a good living as a tort lawyer.†  (source)
  • To this day I couldn't stomach cherry brandy, not even in the torts my mother loved from Milton's Market.†  (source)
    torts = things for which legal damages can be sought
  • Robert Lyle was a senior associate with Bertram, Bertram, Hudson and Slovens, a Boston law firm that had fought its first tort case in British court.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
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  • The Afrikaans word for "torch" is toorts, very similar to tort, and I explained to him that in English tort was a branch of law not a burning stick of wood that could be used to set off a bomb.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
  • I was playing it all from my book on torts, boning up for the bar exam.†  (source)
    torts = things for which legal damages can be sought
  • But I'd be committing a tort.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
  • Then, bursting suddenly into the study, he found Elk Duncan, with unaccustomed eye bent dully upon a page of Torts, a bright bird held by the stare of that hypnotic snake, the law.†  (source)
    Torts = things for which legal damages can be sought
  • Staring out the window, Litvinoff imagined the two thousand copies of The History of Love as a flock of two thousand homing pigeons that could flap their wings and return to him to repot>< him tort on how many tears shed, how many laughs, how many passages read aloud, how many cruel closings of the cover after reading barely a page, how many never opened at all.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
  • One of the first things I had done after arriving at Pretoria Local was to send a letter to the authorities notifying them of my intention to study and requesting permission to purchase a copy of the Law of Torts, part of my syllabus.†  (source)
    Torts = things for which legal damages can be sought
  • In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
  • BLOOM: (Obdurately) Sirs, take notice that by the law of torts you are bound over in your own recognisances for six months in the sum of five pounds.†  (source)
    torts = things for which legal damages can be sought
  • Ce qui n'est pas beau a tort d'être; La beauté n'aime que la beauté, Avril tourne le dos a Janvier~.†  (source)
    tort = any wrongdoing for which legal damages can be sought
  • In art, as in politics, les grand peres ont toujours tort.†  (source)
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