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What (who) is Contort - definition

LEGAL TERM
Contort (law)

contort      
(contorts, contorting, contorted)
If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
His face contorts as he screams out the lyrics...
The gentlest of her caresses would contort his already tense body...
Brenner was breathing hard, his face contorted with pain.
VERB: V, V n, V-ed
Contort      
·vt To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to Bend; to Distort; to Wrest.
contort      
v. a.
Twist, writhe, distort.

Wikipedia

Contorts

Contorts (arguably) is a portmanteau, or a combination of "contracts" and "torts" originated by Grant Gilmore in his book The Death of Contract. The generally informal term refers to the continual or persistent "tortification" of contract law. In other words, in recent years, principles from tort law increasingly have been applied to contract disputes and incorporated into the general body of contract law.

The basis for "contorts" includes the widespread application of promissory estoppel (as a substitute for consideration) and the awarding of punitive damages in breach of contract claims. At least in certain aspects, strict and rigid conceptions of contract law and contractual relationships have thus been eroded or deemphasized in common law and popular culture.

Alternatively, "contorts" may simply refer to a fusion of contracts and torts law, rather than a process in which one area of the law erodes or overtakes another.

Examples of use of Contort
1. Metal, contorted in the way only a hurricane can contort, litters shopping plazas.
2. More exotic disciples contort their bodies into astonishing knots, smash rocks on their heads or hang weights from their scrotums.
3. "Even if I wanted it to leave, it wouldn‘t," she says, adding vaguely: "I still contort in my sleep.
4. His rhythm has been in tatters, the propensity for his right wrist to contort into strange positions a challenge to any semblance of consistency or accuracy.
5. But an editorial in the New York Times blasted Tokyo for what it termed "efforts to contort the truth" –– an attack that was featured on Japanese news programs.