delict
Example Sentences
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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Forgive her, gracious gods, this one delict, And on the next fault punishment inflict.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
The "natural" sources of liability were delict and contract.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
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
