delict

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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."

From Time Magazine Archive

The privateer crew stood silent, ready in case of resistance to shatter the wretched merchantman, which, luckily for her, remained motionless, like a schoolboy caught in flagrant delict by a master.

From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de

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

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

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 Moyle, John Baron