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

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

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

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 Pound, Roscoe