CONVICIUM

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.