Definition of Culpa

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

Definition of Culpa

1. negligence for which one is liable [n -PAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culpa

culmen
culmens
culmiferous
culminal
culminant
culminate
culminated
culminates
culminating
culmination
culminations
culming
culms
culotte
culottes
culpa (current term)
culpabilities
culpability
culpable
culpable negligence
culpableness
culpablenesses
culpably
culpae
culpatory
culprit
culprits
culrage
culs-de-sac
cult

Literary usage of Culpa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"DOLUS, culpa, AND CASUS. A PARTY to a contract or quasi-contract may commit a breach of its terms, express or implied, either intentionally or ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence: Being a Translation of the by Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Nathaniel Lindley Lindley (1855)
"In cases of doubt the words culpa and diligentia are to be taken in the sense of absolute.3 Degrees of culpa. — If negligence in its widest sense be ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1869)
"culpa = Guilt: Dolus et Negligentia (in any of its modifications). ... culpa as opposed to Dolus. Includes indirect and hasty intention, *' Trustees, ..."

4. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars, Emperor of the East Justinian (1917)
"culpa would naturally admit of degrees. The fault might be one which any man in his senses would have scrupled to commit, and it was then termed lata culpa ..."

5. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington by United States Dept. of State, Geneva Arbitration Tribunal (1872)
"After distinguishing between culpa in criminal and in civil cases, the same learned writer says : It is important, therefore, uot so much to distinguish the ..."

6. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"fata, quae minent culpas, H.—Person.: Indus erat culpa potare ... [P. of culpo], blamable, deserv- *í reproach : Paria, V. culpo, avi, atus, are [ culpa ] ..."

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