Ex Delicto
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
From a delict, tort, fault, crime, .or malfeasance. In both the civll and the common law, obligations and causes of action are divided into two great classes,—those arising ex contractu, (out of a contract,) and those ex delicto. The latter are such as grow out of or are founded upon a wrong or tort, c. g., trespass, trover, replevin. These terms were known in English law at a very early period.
See Inst 4, 1, pr.; Mackeld. Rom. Daw, § 384; 3 BL Comm. 117; Bract, fol. 101b.