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
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 Morgan, John Hartman
The six ringleaders, acting in Mataafa’s interest, had been guilty of a delict; with Mataafa’s approval, they delivered themselves over to be tried.
From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Pound, Roscoe
There are weak points technically; for instance, the character of Madeleine Forestier, afterwards Duroy—still later caught in flagrant delict and divorced—is left rather enigmatic.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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