delict
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Roscoe Pound
The greater the delinquent," he urged, "the greater the delict.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
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 Honoré de Balzac
Compensation in respect of injury or death is not paid if the accident was brought about through the culpable negligence or other delict of the insured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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