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 Pound, Roscoe

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

He had been prepared for sullen black looks and fierce words, instead of which he was irresistibly reminded of schoolboys caught by their master using a crib, or in other like flagrant delict.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas