tortfeasor (tortfe"zor)

In law, a wrongdoer; a trespa er; one who commits or has committed a tort. trozo, stem, stump, prob. - Torso Belvedere, a torso of a fine Greek statue of a seated Hercules, attributed to the school of Lysippus, and by some believed to be a copy of a work by that master. It is preserved in the Vatican Museum. See cut under abdominal. [= G. Dan. tort , tort = Pr. ed neck; wry-necked; affected with torticollis. Coues.