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Delict (from
Latin dēlictum, past
participle of dēlinquere ‘to be at fault, offend’) is a term in
civil and
mixed law
jurisdictions whose exact meaning...
- Quasi-
delict is a
French legal term used in some
civil law jurisdictions, encomp****ing the
common law
concept of
negligence as the
breach of a non-wilful...
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Delict in
Scots law is the area of law
concerned with
those civil wrongs which are
actionable before the
Scottish courts. The
Scots use of the term 'delict'...
- term
delict in
articles about jurisdictions which specifically use the term to
refer to
torts (e.g.
Scots Law of
Delict and
South African law of
delict)....
- The
South African law of
delict engages primarily with 'the cir****stances in
which one
person can
claim compensation from
another for harm that has been...
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further separates the law of
obligations into contracts,
delicts, quasi-contracts, and quasi-
delicts. Nowadays, obligation, as
applied under civilian law...
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obligation created as a
result of a
delict.
While "
delict"
itself was
never defined by
Roman jurisprudents,
delicts were
generally composed of injurious...
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Leading Scottish legal cases include:
Burmah Oil Co. v Lord
Advocate [1965] AC 75
MacCormick v Lord
Advocate 1953 SC 396
Bannatyne v
Overtoun [1904] AC...
- media) and
slander (oral speech). It is
treated as a
civil wrong (tort,
delict), as a
criminal offence, or both.[additional citation(s) needed] Defamation...
- In
legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or ****um
fatale ("loss
arising from
inevitable accident") is an
event caused...
