delict

Example Sentences

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Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The six ring-leaders, acting in Mataafa’s interest, had been guilty of a delict; with Mataafa’s approval, they delivered themselves over to be tried.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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