crimen injuria
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin crīmen (“crime”) + ablative form of iniūria (“injury”).
Noun
[edit]- (criminal law, chiefly South Africa) In Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse). [from 20th c.]
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 288:
- The four students about whom headlines of the urination into a pot of stew for blacks went around the world will go on trial—later—in August this year, charged with crimen injuria.