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plural culpae
(law) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. quotations examples
Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense
1849, James G. Butler, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law