Definitions For Delict

Noun

DELICT (plural DELICTs) (civil law, Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. from the early 16th c. (legal) The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Derived terms

delictual quasi-delict

Translations

Bulgarian: нарушение на закона, n Finnish: delikti Indonesian: delik

See also

{{pedialite}} {{pedialite, Scots Law#Delict}} corpus delicti

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, la, delictum, , fault}}, from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo, , to be lacking; to fail; to transgress, from dē- + linquō, , to leave, quit, forsake, depart from.

Anagrams

Deltic, deltic