delict
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 six ring-leaders, acting in Mataafa’s interest, had been guilty of a delict; with Mataafa’s approval, they delivered themselves over to be tried.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Thomas Hughes
Here also there was wilful aggression, and the delict of dolus gets its name from the intentional misleading that characterizes it in Roman law as it does deceit in English law.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound