Legal Term Dictionary

The act or process of deliberating. The act of weighing and examining the reasons' for and against a contemplated act or course of conduct or a choice of acts or means. See DELIBERATE. . Delioatns debitor est odiosns in lege. A luxurious debtor is odious in law. 2 Bulst. 148. More...

The act or process of deliberating. The act of weighing and examining the reasons' for and against a contemplated act or course of conduct or a choice of acts or means. See DELIBERATE. . Delioatns debitor est odiosns in lege. A luxurious debtor is odious in law. 2 Bulst. 148. Imprisonment for debt has now, however, been generally abolished. Less...

In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or injury; an offense; a violation of public or private duty. It will be observed that this word, taken in Its most general sense, is Wider in both directions than our English term "tort." On the one hand* it includes those wrongful More...

In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or injury; an offense; a violation of public or private duty. It will be observed that this word, taken in Its most general sense, is Wider in both directions than our English term "tort." On the one hand* it includes those wrongful acts which, while directly affecting some individual or his property, yet extend in their injurious consequences to the peace or security of the community at large, and hence rise to the grade of crimes or misdemeanors. These acts were termed in the Roman law "public delicts;" while those for which the only penalty exacted was compensation to the person primarily injured were denominated "private delicts." On the other hand, the term appears to have included injurious actions which transpired without any malicious intention on the part of the doer. Thus Pothier gives the name . "quasi delicts" to the acts of a person who, without malignity, but by an inexcusable imprudence, causes an injury to another. Poth. Obi. 116. But the term is used in modern jurisprudence as a convenient synonym of "tort;" that is, a wrongful and injurious violation of a jus iu rem or right available against all the world. This appears in the two contrasted phrases, "actions em contractu" and "actions em delicto." Quasi dellot. An act whereby a person, without, malice, but by fault, negligence, or inv prudence not legally excusable, causes injury to another. They were four in number, viz.; (1) . Qui judex litem suam fecit, being the offense of partiality or excess in the judex, (juryman;) e. g., in assessing the damages at a figure in excess of the extreme limit permitted by the formula. (2) Dejectum effu&umve aliquid, being the tort committed by one's servant in emptying or throwing something out of an attic or uppen story upon a person passing beneath. (3) Damnum infectum, being the offense of hanging dangerous articles over the heads of persons passing along the king's highway. (4) Torts committed by one's agents (e. g., stable-boys, shop-managers, etc.) in the course of their employment. Brown. Less...

Lat. A delict, tort, wrong, injury, or offense. Actions ex delicto are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract. Culpability, blameworthiness, or legal delinquency. The word occurs in this sense in the maxim, "In pari delicto melior est conditio defendentis," (which see.) A challenge More...

Lat. A delict, tort, wrong, injury, or offense. Actions ex delicto are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract. Culpability, blameworthiness, or legal delinquency. The word occurs in this sense in the maxim, "In pari delicto melior est conditio defendentis," (which see.) A challenge of a juror propter delictum is for some crime or misdemeanor that affects his credit and renders him infamous. 3 BL Comm. 363; 2 Kent, Comm. 241. Less...

To mark or lay out the limits or boundary line of a territory or country.

To mark or lay out the limits or boundary line of a territory or country. Less...

The act of fixing, marking off, or describing the limits or boundary line of a territory or country. Delinquent per Iran provocatus pu-airl debet mi tins. 3 Inst 55. A delinquent provoked by anger ought to be punished more mildly.

The act of fixing, marking off, or describing the limits or boundary line of a territory or country. Delinquent per Iran provocatus pu-airl debet mi tins. 3 Inst 55. A delinquent provoked by anger ought to be punished more mildly. Less...

n. In the civil law. He who has been guilty of some crime, offense, or failure of duty.

n. In the civil law. He who has been guilty of some crime, offense, or failure of duty. Less...

adj. As applied to a debt or claim, it means simply due and unpaid at the time appointed by law or fixed by contract; as, a delinquent tax. Chauncey v. Wass, 35 Minn. 1, 30 N. W. 826; Gallup v. Schmidt, 154 Ind. 196, 56 N. E. 450. As applied More...

adj. As applied to a debt or claim, it means simply due and unpaid at the time appointed by law or fixed by contract; as, a delinquent tax. Chauncey v. Wass, 35 Minn. 1, 30 N. W. 826; Gallup v. Schmidt, 154 Ind. 196, 56 N. E. 450. As applied to a person, it commonly means that he Is grossly negligent or in willful default in regard to his pecuniary obligations, or even that he is dishonest and unworthy of credit. Boyce v. Ewart, Rice (S. C.) 140; Ferguson v. Pittsburgh, 159 Pa. 435, 2S Atl. 118; Grocers' Ass'n v. Exton, IS Ohio Cir. Ct R. 321. Less...

In medical jurisprudence. Delirium is that state of the mind in which it acts without being directed by the power of volition, which is wholly or partially suspended. This happens most perfectly in dreams. But what is commonly called "delirium" is always preceded or attended by a feverish and highly More...

In medical jurisprudence. Delirium is that state of the mind in which it acts without being directed by the power of volition, which is wholly or partially suspended. This happens most perfectly in dreams. But what is commonly called "delirium" is always preceded or attended by a feverish and highly diseased state of the body. The patient in delirium is wholly unconscious of surrounding objects, or conceives them to be different from what they really are. His thoughts seem to drift about, wild-? erlng and tossing amidst distracted dreams. And his observations, when he makes any, as often happens, are wild and incoherent; or, from excess of pain, he sinks into a low muttering, or silent and death-like stupor. The law contemplates this species of mental derangement as an intellectual eclipse; as a darkness occasioned by a cloud of disease passing over the mind; and which must soon terminate in health or in death. Owing's Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 386, 17 Am. Dec. 311; Supreme Lodge v. Lapp, 74 S. W. 656, 25 Ky. Law Rep. 74; Clark v. Ellis, 9 Or. 132; Brogden v. Brown, 2 Add. 441. -Delirium febrile. In medical jurisprudence. A form of mental aberration incident to fevers, and sometimes to the last stages of chronic diseases. Less...

A disorder of the nervous system, involving the brain and setting up an attack of temporary delusional insanity, sometimes attended with violent excitement or mania, caused by excessive and long continued indulgence in alcoholic liquors, or by the abrupt cessation of such use after a protracted debauch. See INSANITY.

A disorder of the nervous system, involving the brain and setting up an attack of temporary delusional insanity, sometimes attended with violent excitement or mania, caused by excessive and long continued indulgence in alcoholic liquors, or by the abrupt cessation of such use after a protracted debauch. See INSANITY. Less...

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict White, New. Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, ? 4.

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict White, New. Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, ? 4. Less...