in Scots law, the verbal injury of bringing a person into public hatred and ridicule, even (according to a few, but not all, commentators) by saying something that is true.
CONVICIUM, civil law. The name of a species of slander, or, in the meaning
of the civil law, injury, uttered in pubic, and which charged some one with
some act contra bonos mores. Vicat, ad verb; Bac. Ab. Slander.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
According to Aquinas, Summa Theologica, IIa, IIae, B, "blasphemare est contumeliam vel aliquod convicium inferre in injuriam creatoris." In the fourteenth-century penitential manual, Summa Astensis, it is written: "est autem blasphemia peccatum morale ex genere suo.
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