Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

lex Cornelia de injuriis

n. [Latin] Roman law. The Cornelian law providing a civil action for the recovery of a penalty in certain cases of bodily injury and violent invasion of property. -Also spelled lex Cornelia de iniuriis. "Lex Cornelia de iniuriis Punished three kinds of injury committed by violence: pulsare (beating), verberare (striking, causing pains) and domum introire (forcible invasion of another's domicile)." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 549 (1953).