Tort-Feasor Definition:

Also presented without a hyphen, as in tortfeasor.

As John Bouvier writes in the 1897 edition of Bouvier's Law Dictionary:

"TortFeasor: a wrong-doer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort."

In Burke v. Webb Boats, Justice Winchester of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma uses almost identical words:

"A tort-feasor is a wrong-doer, that is, one who is guilty of a tort."

REFERENCES:

• Duhaime, Lloyd, Tort & Personal Injury Law
• Burke v. Webb Boats, Inc., 37 P. 3d 811 (2001)