Culpa vs Periculum - What's the difference?
culpa | periculum |
(legal) negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart
(legal) accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation
(Webster 1913)
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In lang=en terms the difference between culpa and periculum
is that culpa is negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart while periculum is accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.culpa
English
Noun
- (Wharton)