Defamatory Statement
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Defamatory statement, is a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally or to cause him to be shunned or avoided or to expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to disparage him in his office, profession, calling, trade or business, Halsbury's Laws of England (28), para 10, p. 8.
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