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Infamare

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

(Lat.) In the civil law. To defame; to attack or injure one's character by word or writing.

Brissonius; 3 Bl. Com. 125.

INFAMIS (Lat.) In Roman law. One who, in consequence of the application of a general rule, and not by virtue of an arbitrary decision of the censors, lost his political rights, but preserved his civil rights.

Savigny, Dr. Rom. i 79.