delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
Here also there was wilful aggression, and the delict of dolus gets its name from the intentional misleading that characterizes it in Roman law as it does deceit in English law.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
