delictual fault

delictual fault
/daliktyuwsl folt/ An act, productive of obligations, which takes place between persons juridically strangers to each other; it supposes the absence of obligation and its result is the creation of one. Reserve Ins. Co. v. Fabre, 243 La. 982, 149 So.2d 413, 416

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