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
Having treated in the preceding Book of contractual and quasicontractual obligations, it remains to inquire into obligations arising from delict.
From The Institutes of Justinian by John Baron Moyle
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
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
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
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