Culpable
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
This 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 is more nearly equivalent As he has merely lost a right of action which he might voluntarily relinquish, and has wronged nobody but himself, culpable neglect would seem to convey the idea of neglect for which he was to blame and is ascribed to his own carelessness, improvidence or folly.
Waltham Bank v. Wright, 8 Allen (Mass.) 122.