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crimen injuria

crimen injuria noun: in Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).

Noun

crimen injuria

  1. (South Africa, criminal law) In Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).
    • 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.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 288

Origin of crimen injuria

From Latin crīmen (“crime”) + ablative form of iniūria (“injury”).

Questions about crimen injuria

What does crimen injuria mean?
Crimen injuria means in Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).
What part of speech is crimen injuria?
Crimen injuria is a noun.

Words near crimen injuria in the dictionary

  1. crimelords
  2. crimen
  3. crimen adulterii
  4. crimen exceptum
  5. crimen falsi
  6. crimen injuria
  7. crimenetly
  8. Crimeo-
  9. crimeproof
  10. crimeproofed
  11. crimeproofing

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