What is the meaning of Tort?

(a.) Stretched tight; taut.
(n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.
(n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.

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