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名詞

tortfeasee (plural tortfeasees)

1. (law) A person to whom a tort is committed.
   • 1935, Morton C. Campbell, “Non-Consensual Suretyship”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 45, number 1, page 88:

     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[.]

   • 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 328:

     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.

関連する語

• tortfeasor
• tortfeasance