Sentence examples for delicts from inspiring English sources

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In Justinian's Institutes only four delicts were dealt with: theft, robbery with violence, damage to property, and verbal or physical assault.

By the 5th century bc in Rome, fines known as delicts had begun to replace talion in many instances, though the concept of talion did reemerge in medieval Germany and in some areas of Scandinavia in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Courts are willing to allow for broad use of the charge because, as the Supreme Court once noted, "collective criminal agreement — partnership in crime — presents a greater potential threat to the public than individual delicts".

In July, the Vatican made revisions to internal laws to include the attempted ordination of women among its "more grave delicts," or offenses, making it comparable to heresy, apostasy and pedophilia.

But what astonished many Catholics was the inclusion of the attempt to ordain women in a list of the "more grave delicts," or offenses, which included pedophilia, as well as heresy, apostasy and schism.

"Sexual abuse and pornography are more grave delicts, they are an egregious violation of moral law," Monsignor Scicluna said in his first public appearance since the sex abuse crisis hit.

To take one well-known example, in France the law of civil wrongs (torts, delicts) is based upon five relatively short articles of the Code Civil (§§ 1382 1386).