CRIMEN LAESAE MAJESTATIS

In criminal law. The crime of lesae majestatis, or injuring majesty or royalty; high treason. The term was used by the older English law writers to denote any crime affecting the king’s person or dignity. It is borrowed from the civil law, in which it signified the undertaking of any enterprise against the emperor or the republic Inst. 4, 18, 3. Crimen ISBSSB majestatis omnia alia crimina excedit quoad pcanam. 3 Inst 210. The crime of treason exceeds all other crimes in its punishment Crimen omnia en se nata vitiat. Crime vitiates everything which springs from it Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 531. Crimen trahit personam. The crime carries the person, (i.e., the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisdiction over the person of the offender.) People v. Adams, 3 Denio (N. Y.) 190, 210, 45 Am. Dec. 468. Crimina morte extinguntur. Crimes are extinguished by death.