CONTORT

contort (kon-tort), n.1. (usu. pl.) The overlapping domain of contract law and tort law. “I have occasionally suggested to my students that a desirable reform in legal education would be to merge the first-year courses in Contracts and Torts into a single course which we could call Contorts.” Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract 90 (1974).

2. A specific wrong that falls within that domain. 3.Informal. A constitutional tort. See constitutional tort under TORT. [Blacks Law 8th]