Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Contort

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. contra (kon-tray, prep. Against or contrary to. ( As a citation signal, contra denotes that the cited authority supports a contrary view. "Observe in the note citing cases in support of a proposition mentioned in the text whether any of the cases follow the word contra, which means that a contrary rule has been laid down in them." Frank Hall Childs, Where and How to Find the Law 79-79 (1922). contra account. See ACCOUNT.