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Personal tort

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

One involving or consisting in an injury to the person or to the reputation or feelings, as distinguished from an injury or damage to real or personal property, called a "property tort."

See Mumford v. Wright, 12 Colo. App. 214, 55 Pac. 744.

Quasi tort

though not a recognized term of English law, may be conveniently used in those cases where a man who has not committed a tort is liable as if he had. Thus, a master is liable for wrongful acts done by his servant in the course of his employment.

Broom, Com. Law, 690; Underh. Torts, 29.