Delict

In Civil Law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, ca some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlarged sense, this term Includes all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors, nri'l even the Injury which has been caused by another, either voluntarily or accidentally, without evil intention. But more commonly by delicts are understoo small offences which are punished by a small fine or a short imprisonment Private delicts are those which are di ly injurious to a private individual. Public delicts are those which affect the whole community in their hurtful consequences. (J nasi delicts are the acts of a person, who. without malignity, but by an inexcusable imprudence, causes an injury to another. Pothier. Obi. n. 116; Erskine, Pr. 4. 4. 1. DELICTUM (I/at). A crime or offence; a tort or wrong, as in actions ex delicto, l Chit. PL A challenge of a juror propter delictum is for some 'Time or misdemeanor thai affects ins credit and renders him infamous. 3 Bla. Com. 363; 2 Kent 241 Some offence committed or wrong done. 1 Kent 552; Cowp. L99, 200. A state of culpability. Occurring often, in the phrase "in pari delicto melior est conditio </< favicitis." So, where both parties to a broken contract have been guilty of unlawful acts, the law will OOl interfere, but will leave them in pari delicto. 2 Greenl. Ev. § 111.