delict
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is worth a moment's digression to suggest that such things show how little the historical categories of delict and contract represent any essential or inherent need of legal thinking.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
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
The "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
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
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