Culpa

A fault; negligence; guilt.

Lata culpa

Gross negligence.

Levis culpa

Ordinary negligence.

Levissima 1 Massachusetts Society, &c. v. Boston, 142 Mass. 87- 23 (1886), Devens, J. 2 Act 3 March, 1873: E. S. §§ 4386-89. s Act 27 Feb. 1877: E. S. § 4390. culpa.

Slight negligence.i Compare Delictum; Dolus. Whence exculpatory, inculpatory, exculpation.

Culpabilis. Guilty.

Won culpatailis.

Not guilty

Non culpabilis was abbreviated upon the minutes " non cul." To this plea the clerk, on behalf of the sovereign, replied that the prisoner was guilty, as he was ready to prove. The formula for this reply was cul. prit., i. e., culpabilis, partus verificare,^ Whence " culprit." But that word may come from mlped, which is from culpe, to charge with a crime; • or it may be a^corruption of culpate^ an accused person.* The expression non cul et de hoc, still used in the records of a few criminal courts of general jurisdiction, is an abridgment of the sentence non culpabilis et de hoc seponit supra Deum et patriam, not guilty and of this he puts himself upon God and his country. See Aeeaign; Culpable.