What's the difference between mort and tort?

Mort


Definition:

  • (n.) A great quantity or number.
  • (n.) A woman; a female.
  • (n.) A salmon in its third year.
  • (n.) Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
  • (n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
  • (n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were stated postoperative complications and early results of palliative treated patients (mortality 19,8%) and radicaly operated patients (postoperative--hospitality mort.
  • (2) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
  • (3) The New York Daily News – neglected plaything of forgotten Canadian media magnate Mort Zuckerman – has also flipped and endorsed Mitt Romney in this election.
  • (4) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
  • (5) The methodology was a combination of occupational hygiene surveys, including a preliminary hazard analysis, with a comprehensive assessment of the safety and health systems in use based on the 'Management Oversight and Risk Tree' (MORT) method [Knox and Eicher, MORT User's Manual, Revision 2.
  • (6) With its wall-sized mural of a skull and crossbones and the slogan "Atlético Até a Morte" (Atlético Until Death), it was impossible not to notice the bar, which is the base of the torcedores organizados – or supporters' club – of Atletico Paranaense.
  • (7) Concentrations of lead in venous blood of all children and in samples from the home environment of Mort Bay children.
  • (8) Luís Boa Morte, a Portuguese who played in the Premier League for West Ham and Fulham, summed up his countrymen’s feelings when he said: “As we all know, Nani is an excellent player.
  • (9) The series, which tells the story of Jeffrey Tambor’s Mort and his transition towards becoming Moira, has an indie-movie aesthetic and a wry, gentle touch.
  • (10) Palouzie, president of VIVRE SA MORT, Association Européenne pour la Réhabilitation Sociale du Mourir, discusses attitudes of the public and the medical profession in France and Belgium toward death, the dying cancer patient, and terminal care.
  • (11) She put on roller skates, lifted her dress and sang Les Feuilles Mortes, while bare-assing the audience.
  • (12) It's got the best equipped "black box" theatre I've seen, and I sat with an audience of chinstrokers through an electronic concert by Mort Subotnick.
  • (13) The only mistake she ever made, relationship-wise, was media magnate Mort Zuckerman, in the late 1980s.
  • (14) Mort Bay and Summer Hill, residential localities in inner Sydney.
  • (15) The first of those, OSS 117 N'est pas Mort , debuted in 1956, five years before Terence Young's Dr No, the first 007 film.
  • (16) What the reviewers of Juvenalia discerned was true not just of our little show, but of the original from which it was drawn: the Satires stand in a tradition to which Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, but equally Max Miller and Jackie Mason and Bernard Manning all belong, the comic improvisation on a theme.
  • (17) Initial rate of uptake for low lysine concentrations is mort tissue.
  • (18) The golden arc of Woolacombe Sands comes into view and beyond is Morte point, where Tarka once hunted for bass.
  • (19) Marion Dowdings, former deputy chair of his local party and now chairman of its supper club, receives an OBE, while Simon Mort, president of the neighbouring Oxford West Conservatives , receives the same.
  • (20) Among the different techniques the transumbilical route seems to be mort effective than recently thought of.

Tort


Definition:

  • (n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.
  • (n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
  • (a.) Stretched tight; taut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
  • (2) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
  • (3) The torted testes of the sixty-minute group receiving RP-30A revealed a significant difference (decrease) in uptake indicating that RP-30A may be a more sensitive tracer in detecting testicular blood flow changes in early testicular torsion.
  • (4) For example, tort liability expansion was primarily instituted to compel a greater provision of liability insurance, not to reward stress claims.
  • (5) Change is in the wind, and our tort system will be blown away on the winds of change for change's sake unless we participate in correcting deficiencies in the tort system and civil jury trial process."
  • (6) The relationship of the doctor to the private patient is governed by the law of contract and in a particular case may impose a greater duty on the doctor than that imposed by tort.
  • (7) Traditional views in the areas of contract and tort, with some comments on the current changes in that law, are described.
  • (8) There have been numerous theoretical analyses of statistical proof of injury in toxic tort cases.
  • (9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
  • (10) This paper explores the way in which the principles of tort law might define primary and secondary liability for these new health professionals.
  • (11) Recommendations were also put forward that no damages should be permitted for non-pecuniary loss during the first 3 months and that the full value of the social security benefits should be deductible from all tort damages.
  • (12) The costs of a compensation system for medical injury regardless of fault could be met by eliminating the friction costs of the tort system, and would be helped by establishing national health insurance.
  • (13) The authors trace these developments in the legal arena in both tort actions and complaints under civil rights statutes.
  • (14) This paper explores the foregoing issues, discusses medical versus legal concepts of causation, outlines the legal tests for admissibility of novel scientific evidence (including Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the Frye test of general acceptance by the relevant scientific community), and presents a toxic tort case in which expert psychiatric testimony addressed the issue of causation of schizophrenia.
  • (15) In 1984, the New Jersey Supreme Court became the first high court to impose liability successfully upon social hosts for the torts of their intoxicated adult guests.
  • (16) Even if the counselor is not directly employed by the professional, so that the tort doctrine of respondeat superior would not pertain, other ties could cause either a direct agency or an ostensible agency doctrine to attach.
  • (17) It is also emphasised that the improvements in the tort system, in accountability, and in data collection for risk management purposes are essential adjuncts to any such compensation scheme.
  • (18) These suits come under the category of tort law, where damages are sought to compensate those whose interests have been harmed.
  • (19) The authors discuss difficulties that arise with the current system of tort liability and argue that a no-fault compensation program is warranted.
  • (20) He can't see how that could be done without withdrawing from the Council of Euopre and therefore leaving the EU itself • Introducing a statutory tort of privacy • Have a new 'privacy regime' under a statutory regulator • Steady as she goes – leaving judges to develop the law.

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