tortious interference

English

Noun

tortious interference (countable and uncountable, plural tortious interferences)

1. (law, torts) Intentional damage to a person's contractual or other business relationships.

Translations

business relationship damage which gives rise to torts

• Finnish: sopimussuhteiden häiritseminen (exact concept may not exist in Finnish law)
• German: Under the regime of the BGB, damaging contractual relations between other parties is (without prejudice to specific regulations concerning particular matters) not tortious and does not give rise to claims if it is not

1. itself breach of contract
2. or violates a Rahmenrecht
3. or (which is a high threshold) is contra bonos mores with a dolus directed towards the damage (vorsätzliche sittenwidrige Schädigung)