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slander

statements 2 : the tort of oral defamation [sued his former employer for ] compare defamation, false light, libel NOTE: An action for slander may be brought without alleging and proving special damages if the statements in

Calumniate

To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense or of something disreputable to slander to libel

reputational

reputational : of or relating to reputation [a injury caused by the libel]

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Libelous

Containing or involving a libel defamatory containing that which exposes some person to public hatred contempt or ridicule as a libelous pamphlet

Colloquium

A talking together; a conversation. 2. An old term in pleading applied to the statement in declaration for libel or slander that the libellous or slanderous imputation had reference to the plaintiff.

County Courts

general jurisdiction are all personal actions where the debt, demand or damage claimed is notmore than 100l. except libel, slander, seduction, or breach of promise of marriage, ejectment where either the value of the lands or the

Copia libelli deliberanda

Copia libelli deliberanda, a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the

Advertisement

of the (English) Advertising Stations (Rating) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 27). See STOLEN GOODS; REWARD; LIBEL; SUBSTITUTED SERVICE; SKY SIGN; and as to contract by acceptance of advertised offer, see Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke

Consultation

the King's Court, is returned thither again; for if the judges of the King's Court, upon comparing the libel with the suggestion of the party, find the suggestion false or not proved, and therefore the cause to

Contempt of court

which the Court acts in such cases, see R. v. Payne, (1896) 1 QB 580. See Odgers on Libel, 5th Edn. Pp. 535 et seq.; Oswald's Contempt of Court; and CRIME. Contempt of Court is disobedience to

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