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DE SON TORT Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

TORT. L. Fr. Of his own wrong. A stranger who takes upon him to act as an executor without any just authority
is called an “executor of his own wrong,” (de son tort.) 2 Bl. Comm. 507; 2 Steph. Comm. 244.

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