delict

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He was a stout, dark, convivial-looking soul, with a merry eye, not altogether convinced of the enormity of his delict, and inclined at first to deprecate these proceedings.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman

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

It was easy to fit the two categories, delict and formal undertaking, which had come down from the strict law, into the new mode of thought.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe