delict

Delict \De*lict"\, n. [L. delictum fault.] (Law)
   An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an
   offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
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         Every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies
         a delict in the event of its violation.  --Jeffrey.
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DELICT, civil law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, 
causes some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlarged 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. 
     2. 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; Id. 
4, 1 Dig. 47, 1; Id. 48, 1. 
     3. A quasi-delict, quasi delictum, is the act of a person, who without 
malignity, but by an inexcusable imprudence, causes an injury to another. 
Poth. Ob. n. 116; Ersk. Pr. Laws of Scotl. B. 4, t. 4, s. 1.