JUDICIA CENTUMVIRALIA, in Roman antiquity, were trials before the Centumviri, to whom the prætor committed the decision of certain matters of inferior nature, like our justices of the peace at the quarter-sessions. During the judicia centumviralia, a spear was stuck up in the forum, to signify that the court was sitting.
JUDICIUM CALUMNIE was an action brought against the plaintiff for false accusation. The punishment, upon conviction, was inustio frontis, or branding in the forehead.