CRIMINALITER

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CRIMINALITER. Criminally; opposed to civiliter, civilly. 
       2. When a person commits a wrong to the injury of another, he is 
  answerable for it civiliter, whatever may have been his intent; but, unless 
  his intent has been unlawful the is not answerable criminaliter. 1 East, 
  104.