delict
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Thus recovery of a sum of money by way of penalty for a delict is the historical starting point of liability.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
Forgive her, gracious gods, this one delict, And on the next fault punishment inflict.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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