Calumnia
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Calumpnia.
L. Lat. In old English law and practice. A claim, or demand; (vindicatio, L. Lat. clameus.) Spelman. The demand of a right in anything; (juris in re aliqua postulatio.) Id. A challenge.
Spelman. Meg. Orig. 223, 224. Co. Litt. 155 b. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 299.