(n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 'extended suicide' is regarded as the most typical and simultaneously most tragic delict.
(2) Main criminal offences were delicts of property, bodily harm and resistance to police actions.
(3) The analysis suggests that: In young people of any age-group the absolute number of alcohol delicts shows a considerable increase during the last 10 years (1965--1975).
(4) Flight after an accident is a typical alcohol delict.
(5) In the majority of cases sexual delicts of adolescents reveal a far more extensive disturbance in their individual and social development.
(6) An analysis of the different delicts yielded as result a clear preponderance of larcency of money, fraud and embezzlement - in comparison with desertion and absence without official leave.
(7) Non-purposive delinquency of toxicomaniacs includes arson, affray, group delicts, agressive violence etc.
(8) Such delicts are committed under the direct influence of psychotropic drugs with the motivation of "harsh play" when the transpassers do not care the consequences of their delict.
(9) In more than 50% the main traffic delict was drunken driving discovered by police control.
(10) The present investigation has been based on the study of 33 toxicomaniacs (average age 18 yrs 3 mos) who had committed a total of 156 delicts.
(11) Based on the examination of 238 patients having institutional sexuological treatment, the author assessed the basic differences between homosexual sexual delinquents, sexual aggressors, polymorphic sexual delinquents, paedophiliacs and exhibitionists as regards the number of sentences on account of sexual delicts in the case-history, the presence of alcohol during the sexual delict, antialcoholic treatment in the past, the number of sexuological treatments received, age when the first sexual abnormal manifestations occurred, the age when first prosecuted on account of sexual delinquency and the diagnosis of the deviation.
(12) The prophylaxis and clearing-up rate of deviating sexual behaviour of adolescents could be favourably influenced, if doctors, teachers and judicial administrators had a better knowledge of the phenomenology of sexual delicts as well as sexual delinquents.
(13) Comparing the results of the individual delicts in 1965 and 1975 there was no significant difference in the level of the blood alcohol-concentration-groups.
(14) It was further examined statements concerning characteristics of the delict and the experimental situation itself.
(15) The author conceives sexual deviation as a mental disorders which in some instances may reduce the imputability of the person in relation to the sexual delict.
(16) According to the common drinking- and leisure behaviour most of the alcohol delicts happened at weekends around midnight.
(17) Criminal acts, such as sexual and property delicts arising from an acting out of inner tension, may occur in anxiety or manic-depressive states of a mixed character.
(18) In the case of so-called purposive delinquency delicts are usually not committed under a direct influence of psychotropic drugs.
(19) The purpose is to obtain a new dose of the relevant drug, and the delicts include, e.g.
Tort
Definition:
(n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.
(n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
(a.) Stretched tight; taut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(2) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
(3) The torted testes of the sixty-minute group receiving RP-30A revealed a significant difference (decrease) in uptake indicating that RP-30A may be a more sensitive tracer in detecting testicular blood flow changes in early testicular torsion.
(4) For example, tort liability expansion was primarily instituted to compel a greater provision of liability insurance, not to reward stress claims.
(5) Change is in the wind, and our tort system will be blown away on the winds of change for change's sake unless we participate in correcting deficiencies in the tort system and civil jury trial process."
(6) The relationship of the doctor to the private patient is governed by the law of contract and in a particular case may impose a greater duty on the doctor than that imposed by tort.
(7) Traditional views in the areas of contract and tort, with some comments on the current changes in that law, are described.
(8) There have been numerous theoretical analyses of statistical proof of injury in toxic tort cases.
(9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
(10) This paper explores the way in which the principles of tort law might define primary and secondary liability for these new health professionals.
(11) Recommendations were also put forward that no damages should be permitted for non-pecuniary loss during the first 3 months and that the full value of the social security benefits should be deductible from all tort damages.
(12) The costs of a compensation system for medical injury regardless of fault could be met by eliminating the friction costs of the tort system, and would be helped by establishing national health insurance.
(13) The authors trace these developments in the legal arena in both tort actions and complaints under civil rights statutes.
(14) This paper explores the foregoing issues, discusses medical versus legal concepts of causation, outlines the legal tests for admissibility of novel scientific evidence (including Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the Frye test of general acceptance by the relevant scientific community), and presents a toxic tort case in which expert psychiatric testimony addressed the issue of causation of schizophrenia.
(15) In 1984, the New Jersey Supreme Court became the first high court to impose liability successfully upon social hosts for the torts of their intoxicated adult guests.
(16) Even if the counselor is not directly employed by the professional, so that the tort doctrine of respondeat superior would not pertain, other ties could cause either a direct agency or an ostensible agency doctrine to attach.
(17) It is also emphasised that the improvements in the tort system, in accountability, and in data collection for risk management purposes are essential adjuncts to any such compensation scheme.
(18) These suits come under the category of tort law, where damages are sought to compensate those whose interests have been harmed.
(19) The authors discuss difficulties that arise with the current system of tort liability and argue that a no-fault compensation program is warranted.
(20) He can't see how that could be done without withdrawing from the Council of Euopre and therefore leaving the EU itself • Introducing a statutory tort of privacy • Have a new 'privacy regime' under a statutory regulator • Steady as she goes – leaving judges to develop the law.