delict
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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
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 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
Having treated in the preceding Book of contractual and quasicontractual obligations, it remains to inquire into obligations arising from delict.
From The Institutes of Justinian by Moyle, John Baron
