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delict

delict
  (dɪˈlɪkt)
  [ad. L. dēlict-um fault, offence, crime, prop. subst. use of neuter sing. of pa. pple. of dēlinquĕre to fail, commit a fault: see delinquent.]
  A violation of law or right; an offence, a delinquency.

1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 43 Their delicts and offenses. 1594 Parsons Confer. Success. ii. ix. 209 In al criminal affayres and punishing of delictes. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Delicte, fault, small offence. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. ix. 117 When the Supreme Power either hath not power to punish the delinquent, or may misse to have notice of the delict. a 1734 North Exam. ii. v. §43 (1740) 340 Whereby the proper Officer may be brought to answer for the Delict. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. 44 Acts, forbearances and omissions which are violations of rights or duties are styled delicts, injuries or offences. 1871 W. Markby Elem. Law §157 The French code..is no more explicit on the subject of delicts than Blackstone on the subject of civil injuries to which they correspond.

  b. in flagrant delict: transl. Lat. in flagrante delicto, Fr. en flagrant délit, in the very act of committing the offence.

[1772 Junius Lett. lxviii. (1875) 327/1 A person..taken in flagrante delicto, with the stolen goods upon him, is not bailable.] 1820 Scott Ivanhoe xxxvi, Taken in the flagrant delict by the avowal of a crime contrary to thine oath. 1837 Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar (1844) 121 Cases of flagrant delict..required no other trial than the publicity..of the fact. 1892 G. S. Layard Life C. Keene i. 4 [She] resorted to all the time-honoured means of catching scholars in flagrant delict.

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