delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
The privateer crew stood silent, ready in case of resistance to shatter the wretched merchantman, which, luckily for her, remained motionless, like a schoolboy caught in flagrant delict by a master.
From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de
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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
