delict
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 greater the delinquent," he urged, "the greater the delict.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
