delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 John Baron Moyle
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
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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
