The phrase "a delict" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a wrongful act or an offense that causes harm or injury to another person.
Example: "The court found that the defendant had committed a delict, resulting in damages to the plaintiff."
Alternatives: "a tort" or "an offense".
"A priest propositioning someone in the confessional is considered so serious that is labeled by the Vatican as a 'grave delict,' and judgment on such matters is reserved to the doctrinal congregation," writes Joshua J. McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter.
In Austria, for example, WLPT is legal if based on the patient' will, whereas EUT is considered a culpable delict according to § 77 StGB, punishable with prison sentences ranging from six months to five years.
Parking money in Switzerland was long viewed as a "cavalier's delict" in Germany: a gentleman's indiscretion more expected than frowned upon in certain circles.
In modern usage in countries that derive their law from the Roman, delict signifies a wrong in its civil aspects, corresponding to tort in Anglo-American law.
The form of every law is that of a conditional order, directed at the courts, to apply sanctions if a certain behavior (the "delict") is performed.
Delict, in Roman law, an obligation to pay a penalty because a wrong had been committed.
Citing a French law (since changed), which states that "there is neither crime nor delict where the suspect was in a state of dementia at the time of the action," the magistrate in charge of Althusser's case decided that there were no grounds on which to pursue prosecution.
In 1968 a new Theft Act, amended in 1978, replaced the old idea of larceny by a broader concept that resembles the Roman delict (offense) of theft.
This deli delict is so mundane.
With regard to obligations, the law establishes the traditional Roman-law categories of contract, quasi-contract, delict, and quasi-delict.
