Delict
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
civil law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, causes some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlar sense, this term includes all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors, and even the injury which has been caused by another, either voluntarily or accidentally without evil intention; but more commonly by delicts are understood those small offences which are punished by a small fine or a short imprisonment. Delicts are either public or private; the public are those which affect the whole community by their hurtful consequences; the private is that which is directly injurious to a private individual. Inst. 4,18; Ib. 4,1; Dig. 47,1; Ib. 48, 1. <A quasi-delict, quasi delictum, is the act of a person, who, without malignity, but by an inexcusable sipradanes, causes an injury to another.
Poth. Ob. n.116; Ersk. Pr. Laws of Scotl. B. 4, t. 4, s.
1. ‘ DELINQUENT, civil law, he -who has been guilty of some delict.