Why this word is great
TORTFEASOR — [Noun] A person who commits a tort, a civil wrong for which the law provides compensation. From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, from tort ("a wrong, misdeed") + fesor, faiseur ("doer, maker"). Unlike a criminal, who offends the state, or a mere defendant, who may be wrongly accused, a tortfeasor is the precise architect of a private, compensable injury. It is the neighbor whose untrimmed oak crashes through your greenhouse, the manufacturer whose defective kettle scalds your hand, the gossip whose careless words unravel a reputation—the prosaic author of mundane ruin, whose primary legacy is a bill for damages, proving that catastrophe need not be grand to be costly.