Crossword-Solution: DELICTUM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

You will observe also that the importance of laying the stone in the building as it lay in its bed was from the first recognised by all good northern architects, to such extent that to lay stones 'en delit,' or in a position out of their bedding, is a recognized architectural term in France, where all structural building takes its rise; and in that form of 'delit' the word gets most curiously involved with the Latin delictum and deliquium.

The fact of the property being found in our possession constituted a _flagrans delictum_--we were caught "red-handed." It was vain to argue that, had we been the delinquents, we should scarcely have been standing there still, awaiting discovery.

But _delictum_ denotes a more grievous offence than transgression, because it deserves more expiation as appears from Lev.

Admon._, iii.; _Conform._, 139_a_, 2.--_Si vero prælatus subdito aliquid contra animam præcipiat licet ei non obediat tamen ipsum non dimittat._, Ibid.--_Nullus tenetur ad obedientiam in eo ubi committitus delictum vel peccatum.

Bartholomew in their books; and it was held as late as 1741 that culprits may be killed before they are condemned: "Etiam ante sententiam impune occidi possunt, quando de proximo erant banniendi, vel quando eorum delictum est notorium, grave, et pro quo poena capitis infligenda esset." Whilst these principles were current in religion as well as in society, the official censures of the Church and the protests of every divine since Catharinus were ineffectual.