delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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
