38. Effect of a judgment in tort upon the title to property. 42. Actions of tort in relation to written contracts; bank-bills, promissory 19. Breach of contract relating to notes, &c. Loss of negotiable instruland. ments. 1. A TORT is a private or civil wrong or injury. (a) All acts or omissions, which the law recognizes as the subjects (a) "A wrong independent of contract." Broom's Comm. 658; Com. Law Proc. Act 1852. The word is said to be derived from tortus, tortum, (torqueo,) twisted or crooked. Wrong; injury; the opposite of right (droit). So called, according to Lord Coke, because it is wrested or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight. Co. Lit. 158 b; Britt. c. 68, c. 107. "De son tort demesne,” is a phrase long known to the law. White's case, Cro. 20; Toml. L. D. 630. The word tort, though, as above stated, originally derived from the Latin, is French, like many other terms which have long since become naturalized in the English law. It is somewhat remarkable, however, that, while transplanted into the jurisprudence of another country, it should have been |