He was a stout, dark, convivial-looking soul, with a merry eye, not altogether convinced of the enormity of his Delict, and inclined at first to deprecate these proceedings.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
He had been prepared for sullen black looks and fierce words, instead of which he was irresistibly reminded of schoolboys caught by their master using a crib, or in other like flagrant Delict.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
2 Guardians, again, who can be sued by the action on guardianship, cannot properly be said to be bound by contract, for there is no contract between guardian and ward: but their obligation, as it certainly does not originate in Delict, may be said to be quasicontractual.
"The Institutes of Justinian"
Caesar Flavius Justinian