Plural of delict; multiple instances of wrongful acts or legal offenses, especially in civil law systems.
From delict (Latin delictum) plus the English plural suffix -s, creating the standard plural form used in legal English.
The existence of both 'delicts' and 'torts' in English shows how legal language developed two parallel vocabularies—one from Latin (used in formal law) and one from Norman French (used in common law), creating beautiful redundancy in legal terminology.
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