delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The greater the delinquent," he urged, "the greater the delict.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
The "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
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
