In most legal systems this will be both a crime and a tort/delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Rights] Reference

For any other man than her husband to touch it is a private delict for the magnitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheyenne ��� a story from the Great Plains-- part 1] Reference

In the law of torts it is the individual suffering the delict who is conceived to be wronged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Role of the Defence Counsel in Canadian Society] Reference

Guerrino Zilio committed in Pretoria in 1985 and any crime or delict flowing from the incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

See also: General Decree regarding the delict of attempted sacred ordination of a woman comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

For example the measure of damages may be different if the wrongful act is a tort/delict, as opposed to a breach of contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Rights] Reference

On the assumption that the Rand judge was concerned with its meaning before April 27, 1994, more particularly on the date of the delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"The trust will award compensation to the applicants on merit and will operate in accordance with legal principles in terms of the rules of delict.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But the Roman idea persisted, and exists now, that while the corporation as a whole is not subject to punishment for a delict, the officers can be punished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Anglo-French tortfesor wrongdoer, from tort wrong + fesor faisour doer, maker, from Old French, from fais-, stem of faire to do, make, from Latin facere: a person who commits a tort, delict, or quasi-offense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » How New Words Often Come About:] Reference

Subjects will include law of persons and family law, law of delict, law of contract, law of property, law of succession, codification, panacea or progression and developing private law curricula under a Bill of Rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They were civil or prætorian, and could arise from contract, quasi-contract, delict, and quasi-delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Mataafa's interest, had been guilty of a delict; with Mataafa's approval, they delivered themselves over to be tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa] Reference

In both jurisdictions the Crown was not liable for acts which would have made an individual liable in tort or delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lim Kit Siang] Reference

Madeleine Forestier, afterwards Duroy -- still later caught in flagrant delict and divorced -- is left rather enigmatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

Monarch who deserved the lash, that could possibly be produced by seeing another and an innocent individual suffering for his delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

The penalty is totally disproportioned to the delict, and the consequence is, that means are found out of evasion by legal fictions and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

I am a Catholic woman who is deeply wounded by the recent Vatican document that chose to compare the "grave delict" of the ordination of women to pedophilic priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Opinion] Reference

The privateer crew stood silent, ready in case of resistance to shatter the wretched merchantman, which, luckily for her, remained motionless, like a schoolboy caught in flagrant delict by a master.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman of Thirty] Reference

However, a series of cases were contested by insurers, and on 17 October 2007 the House of Lords ruled that pleural plaques do not merit compensation in tort law (the English equivalent of Scots delict).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In actions on theft, robbery, outrage, and fraud, it is not only infamous to be condemned, but also to compound, as indeed is only just; for obligation based on delict differs widely from obligation based on contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Afrikaans textbook on delict entitled DIE ONREGMATIGE DAAD IN DIE.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We have written to our son touching our vassal’s delict, and he must abide his doom, which will most likely be death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

18 Actions arising from delict are sometimes purely penal, sometimes are partly penal and partly reparative, and consequently mixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

“In cases of open delict and of outlawry, there was substantially no defference whatever between the English and the Vehmic proceedings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

"The greater the delinquent," he urged, "the greater the delict.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference

By concentrating on judicial review, lawyers and judges today may tend to forget the historical importance of the law of tort or delict as a way of vindicating the subject's rights and freedoms. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lim Kit Siang] Reference

(the “delict”) is performed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Positivism] Reference

1314: ... a penalty is latae sententiae, so that it is incurred ipso facto when the delict is committed. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference