" Lese Majeste."
The editor of the Kladderadafcsch, a comic journal, is being prosecuted for Use majeste in satirising the recent remarkable speech of the Emperor afc Kiel on the departure of the German squadron for Kiaochow. The German Emperor is making a name for himself, and that not one of renown. Fancy a modorn monarch harking back to tbe old nonsense of Use tnyjeste. In juris prudence any crime committed against the sovereign power in a State was lese mcjeste, in f-ict, treason. The Latin •• crimin loe'oe majestatis " denoted a charge brought against a citizen for acts of rebellion, usurpation of office, or general misdemeanours of a political charaoter, which were comprehended under the title of offences against the majesty of the R >mtn people. The Emperor appear? to he fond of the ways of the past so that fee may in time enact as it was the law in the reign of Tiberius that it waa few majeste to change one's clothes in the presence of any image of the emperor, or to take a ring or a piece of money bearing the effigy of. Caesar into a latrine.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 January 1898, Page 2
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190"Lese Majeste." Manawatu Herald, 11 January 1898, Page 2
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