delict

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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

There are weak points technically; for instance, the character of Madeleine Forestier, afterwards Duroy—still later caught in flagrant delict and divorced—is left rather enigmatic.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

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