noun. A wrongful act under law, such as a tort or a criminal offense.

noun. A transgression; an offense; specifically, in civil and Scots law, a misdemeanor.

noun. An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

noun. The branch of law dealing in delicts.

"'Whenever the Ordinary or Hierarch receives a report of a reserved delict which has at least a semblance of truth — notitiam saltem verisimilem — once the preliminary investigation has been completed, he is to communicate the matter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …'"

corpus delicti  

delictual  quasi-delict  

barbarisms  dishabille  flagrancy  gerrymandering  maleness  

misdemeanor