delict
Americannoun
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Law. a misdemeanor; offense.
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Roman and Civil Law. a civil wrong permitting compensation.
noun
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law Scots law a wrongful act for which the person injured has the right to a civil remedy See also tort
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Roman law a civil wrong redressable by compensation or punitive damages
Etymology
Origin of delict
1515–25; < Latin dēlictum a fault, noun use of neuter of dēlictus (past participle of dēlinquere to do wrong; delinquency ), equivalent to dēlic- fail + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
Compensation in respect of injury or death is not paid if the accident was brought about through the culpable negligence or other delict of the insured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
The privateer crew stood silent, ready in case of resistance to shatter the wretched merchantman, which, luckily for her, remained motionless, like a schoolboy caught in flagrant delict by a master.
From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de
It is worth a moment's digression to suggest that such things show how little the historical categories of delict and contract represent any essential or inherent need of legal thinking.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
The greater the delinquent," he urged, "the greater the delict.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard
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