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Tort Noun Law Civil Misdeed Requiring Compensation Victims

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(TORT), noun

In law, a civil misdeed requiring compensation of the victims.

Cutting the branches off a neighbor’s tree that went over the fence into your yard is, at most, a TORT, not a felony.

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