Culpable
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Means not only criminal, but censurable; and, when the term is applied to the omission by a person to preserve the means of enforcing his own rights, censurable ig more nearly an equivalent. Ashe has merely lost a vight of action which né might voluntarily relinquish, and has wrenged nobody but himseif, culpable negleet conveys the idea of neglect which exists where the loss can fairly be ascribed to the party’s own carelessness, improvidence, or folly, 8 Allen, 121.