Slander - Law Dictionary Search Results
Disslander
To slander
Leasing-making
Leasing-making, slanderous and untrue speeches to the disdain, reproach, and contempt of the sovereign, his council and proceedings, or to
Calumniatory
Containing calumny slanderous
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Maledicent
Speaking reproachfully slanderous
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as
Defamation
respectable an considerable part of the community; may be criminal as well as civil. Includes both libel and slander. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 499) Defamation, general term for words spoken (slander) or written (libel) to the
Case, action on the
which are the subject of such writs, were not called trespasses, but had the general name of torts. Slander in the Limitation Act, 1623 (21 Jac. 1, c. 16), is termed 'an action on the case for
Payment of Money into Court
C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum of money by way of compensation
Libel
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,
Slanderous
Given or disposed to slander uttering slander
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