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; see 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
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 Roscoe Pound
Forgive her, gracious gods, this one delict, And on the next fault punishment inflict.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
It was easy to fit the two categories, delict and formal undertaking, which had come down from the strict law, into the new mode of thought.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
He was a stout, dark, convivial-looking soul, with a merry eye, not altogether convinced of the enormity of his delict, and inclined at first to deprecate these proceedings.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
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