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
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
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
The "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
