Libel
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libel · libellous
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The Law of Torts
The tort of defamation by written or printed statement.
Assault, libel, and deceit are torts.
As to payment of money into Court with an apology in actions for libel contained in a newspaper, add reference to the amending Act, 8 & 9 Vict.
for the law of libel, as a civil cause of action, is indeed overgrown with a great mass of detail, but is in the main sufficiently rational.
Law in a Free State
A legal question of injurious false statement listed among the hard cases for individualist theory.
” Questions of libel, of cruelty to animals, of copyright, of adulteration, of the relation of the sexes, of rights over land, of nuisance and many others, are difficult to solve straight off on the principle of equal liberty.