delict

plural delicts

1. civil law; Scots law; civil law; Scots lawA wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.First known use the early 16th c.

   Synonyms: misdemeanor, tort, transgression, tortfeasance

2. figurativelySynonym of misdeed, any wrongful act.

   1 more example

   Since Mr Ernest Bevin made his plea a generation ago for more coal to give weight to his foreign policy our economic decline has been such as to sap the foundations of our diplomacy. Conversely, I believe that, during the same period, much of our foreign policy has been such as to contribute to that decline. It is to the interaction of these delicts, spanning my time in the foreign service, that this valedictory despatch is devoted.

   1979 March 31, Nicholas Henderson, Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences

   Synonyms: misdeed, any wrongful act

3. lawThe branch of law dealing in delicts.