delict

An innocent party may have alternative or additional claims in delict.

Causation in the law of delict gives rise to two distinct problems.

The equivalent of tort in civil law jurisdictions is delict.

Negligence is a type of tort or delict (also known as a civil wrong).

Most often the delict is a wrongful alienation resulting in financial loss.

Delict is "inherently a flexible set of principles that embody social policy."

A similar right of action exists in Scotland through the law of delict.

Examples include breach of contract and damages in delict.

The doctrine exists in the Scots law of delict.

Conduct in the law of delict is usually divided into factual and legal causation.

It designates a minor infraction only, as opposed to a delict and a crime.

The conduct of the party who induces a contract by improper means frequently constitutes a delict.

Rapina - theft with violence - was a delict of Roman law.

This delict involved bad faith, but violent enforcement of claims, even in good faith, needed repression.

In 2010, the Holy See stated that the ordination of women is a "grave delict".

Verbal injury is a delict in Scotland.

This was erected into a special delict in the troubled times of the Republic, and the rules became a permanent part of the law.

Thus the earliest form of Obligation law derives out of what we would today call Delict.

(In other countries, though, delict can have completely different meaning similar to tort in common law.)

Any internationally wrongful act which is not an international crime in accordance with paragraph 2 constitutes an international delict.

The case is especially significant for the law of delict, and the question of wrongfulness in cases of pure economic loss.

The classic remedy for a delict is compensation: a claim of damages for the harm caused.

There are, for this reason, in-built mechanisms in the South African law of delict to keep liability within reasonable limits.

The harm element is "the cornerstone of the law of delict, and our fundamental point of departure."

The Law of Delict in South Africa.