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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.
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xxi) McMahon demonstrates how delicts were fashioned, sustained, and then eventually discarded. A set of articles on settlement of disputes relating to the legal consequences of a delict - for inclusion in Part III of a future instrument on State responsibility - was adopted on first reading. We immediately see some part of the exegetical problem: Ham commits the delict but it is his son (actually one of his sons), Canaan, who is cursed with the burden of servitude (what sort of primitive patriarchal prohibition declared that seeing a father's nakedness was punishable by this extreme--if indirect--penalty is not a topic Goldenberg takes up, though I suspect that there must be rabbinical comment on this situation of sexual taboo). |
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