Slanderous - Law Dictionary Search Results
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
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
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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