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Delict  n.  (Law) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor. "Every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies a delict in the event of its violation."






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"Delict" Quotes from Famous Books



... with your kind father for an agent, and you for my counsel learned in the law, and the worshipful Master Samuel Griffiths to back me, a few sessions shall not tire my patience. In short, I will make my way into court, even if it should cost me the committing a DELICT, or at least a QUASI DELICT.—You see all is not lost of what Erskine wrote, and ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... usher to bring in the accused, who had been summoned to appear by a mandat d'amener. 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. But the dialectical skill of the magistrate soon tied him into knots, and reduced him to a state ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... words, "the most important passage in the history of Private Property is its gradual separation from the co-ownership of kinsmen." The chapter on Contract, although it contains some of Maine's most suggestive writing, and the chapter on Delict and Crime, have a less direct bearing on his main thesis except in so far as they go to show that the reason why there is so little in early law of what we call civil, as distinct from criminal, law, and in particular of the Law of Contract, is to be found in the fact that, in the ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine



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