Lat. A delict, tort, wrong, injury, or offense. Actions ex delicto are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract.
Culpability, blameworthiness, or legal delinquency. The word occurs in this sense in the maxim, “In pari delicto melior est conditio defendentis,” (which see.)
A challenge of a juror propter delictum is for some crime or misdemeanor that affects his credit and renders him infamous. 3 BL Comm. 363; 2 Kent, Comm. 241.