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Calumniatory

Containing calumny slanderous

Maledicent

Speaking reproachfully slanderous

Leasing-making

Leasing-making, slanderous and untrue speeches to the disdain, reproach, and contempt of the sovereign, his council and proceedings, or to

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Disslander

To slander

Obtrectation

Slander detraction calumny

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

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

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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

Malignare

Malignare, 1. To malign; to slander 2. To maim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 970. Malignare, to malign or slander; also to maim.

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