delict
/dɪˈlɪkt
/ /ˈdiːlɪkt /noun Law
A violation of the law; a tort: an international delict [mass noun]: claims in tort or delict...
- The general rule is that the applicable law is the law of the country in which the events constituting the tort or delict in question occur.
- The court held that for the purposes of the Brussels Convention, now the Brussels Regulation, this was a claim in tort, delict, or quasi-delict.
- The appellant in the present instance asks that her case be approached as a case of delict [i.e. tort], not as a case of breach of contract.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin delictum 'something showing fault', neuter past participle of delinquere (see delinquent).
Rhymes
- non-permissive
- non-persistent
- non-person
- non-personal
- non-photosynthetic
- non-physical
- non-physically
- non-pictorial
- non-placental
- non placet
- non-planar
- non-planarity
- non-playing
- non plevin
- non-plural
- nonplus
- nonplussed
- nonplusser
- non plus ultra
- non-point source
- non-poisonous
- non-polar
- non-political
- non-polluting
- non-popular