🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

delito civil

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deh-lee-toh thee-beel

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tort/tɔːrt/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El demandante presentó una demanda por delito civil."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.

    "The plaintiff filed a lawsuit claiming that the defendant's negligence constituted a tort."
  2. 2

    In law, a tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm.

    "The court ruled that the actions of the defendant were a tort, warranting compensation for damages."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'tort' originates from the Latin word 'tortum', meaning 'twisted' or 'wrong'. It evolved through Old French as 'tort', referring to a wrongful act, and was adopted into English legal terminology in the late Middle Ages, reflecting the concept of civil wrongs that cause harm or loss to individuals.

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