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

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

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

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