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.
