1. See WRONG. Cf. DAMNUM INJURIA DATUM ; actio injuriarum under ACTIO.
2. An assault on a person’s reputation or body. Pl. injuriae (in-joor-ee-ee).
“By injuria (or outrage), as the fourth ground of delict obligation, is meant some affronting wrong, calculated to wound the self-respect and touch the honor of the person injured, to humiliate or degrade him in the view of others.” James Hadley, Introduction to Roman Law 243 (1881).
“The term injuria [is best] used in its original and proper sense of wrong (in jus, contrary to law). The modern use of ‘injury’ as a synonym for damage is unfortunate but inveterate.” R.F.V. Heuston, Salmond on the Law of Torts 13 nn.51–52 (17th ed. 1977).
