[Hague-jur-commercial-law] What exactly are "delicts"????

[struan.robertson@out-law.com]

The differences depend on the legal systems. Just as US law will recognise 
different circumstances as torts from those recognised as torts in English 
law, so Scots law recognises different circumstances as delicts from those 
recognised as torts in English law. I don't know if any countries outside 
Scotland also refer to delicts. To answer your example, the delict of 
nuisance would cover unsocial acts that do not result in damages to the 
person who sues.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Struan
Site Editor
www.out-law.com


-----Original Message-----
From: love@cptech.org 
Sent: 19 June 2001 13:35
To: Robertson Struan; SJR (out-law)
Cc: Hague-jur-commercial-law@venice.essential.org
Subject: RE: [Hague-jur-commercial-law] What exactly are "delicts"????


On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 struan.robertson@out-law.com wrote:

> The same as torts. Scots law refers to delicts, not torts; English law and
> other legal systems refer to torts.

    At the US Copyright and Department of State meetings, it was
reported that delicts were somewhat different.  But I was not clear
exactly what a delict was.  For example, does it cover unsocial acts
that do not result in damages to the person who sues?

 Jamie




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