a. Roman Law. [f. L. culpa fault of negligence or remissness + -OSE, after dolose (L. dolōsus).] Characterized by culpa or (criminal) negligence.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. 1103. Generally an act of forbearance or omission which is merely culpose (or not dolose) is not a crime or public delict.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. Comm. (ed. 2), 153. Not of dolose or intentional delicts, but only of culpose delicts, i. e. committed from negligence.
