adv. [f. prec. + -LY2: cf. AF. torciousement (Godef.).] Wrongfully, illegally; by tort.
a. 1812. Ld. Thurlow, in G. D. Collinson, Idiots & Lunaticks (1812), I. 577 (Jod.). An application, where timber was cut by a stranger tortiously, to have the produce restored to the estate.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), IV. 461. If a purchaser is tortiously evicted … he has his remedy at law.
1882. Times, 22 Feb., 9/5. Not because the House had tortiously debarred Mr. Bradlaugh from taking his seat, but because Mr. Bradlaugh was disqualified by law from so doing.
