Usually means: Legal wrong outside of contract.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. delict: Merriam-Webster
  2. delict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delict: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delict: Wordnik
  6. delict: Wiktionary
  7. delict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. delict: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. delict: Dictionary.com
  10. Delict (Scots law), Delict: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Delict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. delict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Delict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. delict: FreeDictionary.org
  15. delict: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. delict: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. delict: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. delict: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delict: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (delict)

▸ noun:  (civil law, Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
▸ noun:  (law) The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Similar:
tort, fact, crime, tortfeasance, criminal offence, lawbreaking, negligence, culpa, wrongdoing, mischief, more...

Opposite:
innocence, absolution, exoneration, acquittal

Types:
trespass, nuisance, conversion, detinue, replevin, assumpsit, negligence, more...

Phrases:
quasi delict, South African law of delict, more...

Adjectives:
quasi, international, flagrant, private, civil, public, same, moral, criminal, open, flagrante

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Similar:
tort, fact, crime, tortfeasance, criminal offence, lawbreaking, negligence, culpa, wrongdoing, mischief, more...

Opposite:
innocence, absolution, exoneration, acquittal

Types:
trespass, nuisance, conversion, detinue, replevin, assumpsit, negligence, more...

Phrases:
quasi delict, South African law of delict, more...

Adjectives:
quasi, international, flagrant, private, civil, public, same, moral, criminal, open, flagrante



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