delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been prepared for sullen black looks and fierce words, instead of which he was irresistibly reminded of schoolboys caught by their master using a crib, or in other like flagrant delict.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
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 "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
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
