- obligatio ex delicto, or obligatio ex maleficio
- /6blageysh(iy)ow eks daliktow/°maelafish(iy)owAn obligation founded on wrong or tort, or arising from the invasion of a jus in rem.In this there is the second stage, a secondary or sanctioning personal right consequent on a wrong, but the first stage is not a personal right (jus in personam), but a real right (jus in rem), whether a primordial right, right of status, or of property
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.