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delict noun corruption, crime, delictum, dereliction of duty, duty unfulfilled, felony, injurious act, injury, malfeasance, malversation, misdemeanor, misprision, neglect of duty, negligent act of injury, negligent offense, negligent wrongdoing, nonfeasance, obbigation repudiated, offense, official misconduct, tort, violation of a duty, wrong Associated concepts: quasi delict See also: crime, guilt, misdeed, offense 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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