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Culpa

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Noun
  1. 1
    Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Ancient-Rome

    "Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

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