- obligationes ex delicto or ex maleficio
- /obbgeyshiyow niyz eks daliktow /°mael3fish(iy)ow/Obligations arising from the commission of a wrongful injury to the person or property of another."Delictum" is not exactly synonymous with "tort," for, while it includes most of the wrongs known to the common law as torts, it is also wide enough to cover some offenses (such as theft and robbery) primarily injurious to the individual, but now only punished as crimes. Such acts gave rise to an obligatio, which consisted in the liability to pay damages
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.