in flagrant delict

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in flagrant delict (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of in flagrante delicto
    • 1927, E. A. Parker, transl., Rome the Law-Giver, translation of original by J. Declareuil, page 107:
      If the husband caught her in flagrant delict he was authorized to kill her; otherwise she was condemned to death or exile by him or by her own father at the tribunal of the propinqui.