ACCUSATION Copy link • ACCUSATIONaccusatio, incusatio, insimulatio, criminatio (all as actions. SYN. under ACCUSE): crimen (charge): calumnia (false accusation). To defend anybody against an accusation, crimen defendere ab aliquo. To defend one’s self against an accusation, crimen amoliri, propulsare; culpam a se amovere: crimen diluere or criminationem dissolvere (to show its injustice or groundlessness). As a law term, querimonia, querela (complaint: the former from a sense of injustice; the latter from a feeling of vexation): delatio nominis (giving the name of the accused to the judge): periculom (at causing danger to the accused): actio (general term for the legal proceedings, whether in a civil or criminal cause): accosatio (the charge made, especially in a criminal court): petitio, postulatio (in civil causes: demand for restitution or redress): vindicatio (civil action to recover a thing): condictio (civil action on account of a person): formula (the pleading: the formula according to which the accusation was drawn up): libellus (the written accusation). Not. dica, δίκη = actio, in civil causes, when the trial spoken of took place in a Greek court.