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

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

Thus recovery of a sum of money by way of penalty for a delict is the historical starting point of liability.

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