Defamation
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defamation · defamatory · libel · slander · the wrong of defamation
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The Law of Torts
The general legal wrong of injuring another's reputation, encompassing both slander and libel.
The actionable or innocent character of words depends not on the intention with which they were published, but on their actual meaning and tendency when published.
We now pass to the general law of defamation, which applies to both slander and libel, subject, as to slander, to the conditions and distinctions we have just gone through.
” It is commonly said that defamation to be actionable must be malicious, and the old form of pleading added “maliciously” to “falsely.