crimen injuria

English

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

(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.

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