Disparagement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: disparagement Page: 4Defamatory statement
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....
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...
Office
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical.As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that--The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the Justices of the one bench and the other, Barons of the Exchequer and all other that shall be called to ordain, name, or make justices of the peace, sheriffs, . . . or any other officer or minister of the King shall be firmly sworn that they shall not ordain name, or make justice of peace, sheriff . . . nor other officer or minister of the King for any gift or brocage, favour or affection: nor that none that pursueth by him or by other privily or openly to be in any manner of office shall be put in the same office or in any other; but that they make all such officers and ministers of the best and most lawful men, and sufficient to their estimation and knowledge.Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia, (The offices of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.)L...
Jim Crow
A negro said to be so called from a popular negro dance song the refrain of which is ldquoWheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crowrdquo produced in 1835 by Thomas D Rice 1808 1860 a famous negro minstrel considered disparaging and offensive...
male chauvinism
Disparaging patronizing discriminatory or abusive speech or behavior by males toward females stemming from a belief that males are superior to females and females therefore worthy of less respect and inferior treatment A form of sexism...
Disparage
To match unequally to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage...
jerkoff
A lazy foolish stupid or otherwise contemptible person an offensive and disparaging term...
honky
A white caucasian person a term used by some African Americans intended to be disparaging and often taken as offensive...
Gringo
Among Spanish Americans a foreigner especially an American or sometimes an Englishman often used disparagingly or as a term of reproach...
Go between
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties an intermediate agent a broker a procurer sometimes in a disparaging sense...
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