delict

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
  2. The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/dɪˈlɪkt/
Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

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