Word Finder - libel

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A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

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The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly.

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Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

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A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.

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A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

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To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

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He libelled her when he published that.

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To proceed against (a ship, goods, etc.) by filing a libel.

For printing these Zenger was arrested for libel in November 1734.

It was a miserable libel and was at once rebutted by Goodyear.

They codify laws regarding libel and slander.

In this year he carried the Libel Bill.

For alleged libel on General Courtot de Cissey in this paper he was heavily fined.

The common law offense of blasphemous libel is still in place in the " free " country of Great Britain!

But publications were still subject to the laws of the land regarding sedition, blasphemy, obscenity and libel.

In 62 he prevented the execution of the praetor Antistius, who had written a libel upon the emperor, and persuaded the senate to pass a milder sentence.

The evidence copy of an alleged criminal libel may also be found in KB 1.

Boy, by James Hanley, first published in 1931 and banned three years later on grounds of obscene libel.

The blood libel itself is worthy of further analysis by social scientists.

The case is thought to be the first definitive ruling by the English High Court on an issue of Internet libel.

But the standard operating procedure in libel trials is not to put the author on the stand.

Like libel slander switched to a systems would improve.

During the stormy session of 1770 he came into violent collision with Chatham and Camden in the questions that arose out of the Middlesex election and the trials for political libel; and in the subsequent years he was made the subject of the bitter attacks of Junius, in which his early Jacobite connexions, and his.

He was accused with especial bitterness of favouring arbitrary power by the law which he laid down in the trials for libel which arose out of the publications of Junius and Horne Tooke, and which at a later time he reaffirmed in the case of the dean of St Asaph (see Libel).

The most important instances at present existing in England are the privilege of parliament (see Parliament), which protects certain communications from being regarded as libellous (see Libel And Slander), and certain privileges enjoyed by the clergy and others, by which they are to some extent exempt from public duties, such as serving on juries.

The authorities claimed that his description of the Metropolitan police as a " blood thirsty and unconstitutional force " was seditious libel.

Remember, if it moves, its likely committing libel in some way shape or form.

It is difficult to imagine a more serious libel than to accuse a business of being associated with terrorism.

Online Archives When a libel suit is won by a claimant it is not essential to take defamatory material offline.

Errors and omissions insurance will also protect you from libel, slander, and if you were to hire an independent contractor to help you complete a job.

His defence of The Times newspaper, which had accused Sir John Conroy, equerry to the duchess of Kent, of misappropriation of money (1838), is chiefly remarkable for the confession - "I despair of any definition of libel which shall exclude no publications which ought to be suppressed, and include none which ought to be permitted."

Above all, he now, being comparatively secure in position, engaged much more strongly in public controversies, and resorted less to his old labyrinthine tricks of disavowal, garbled publication and private libel.

As early as 1615 suspicions of sorcery began to be spread against her, which she, with more spirit than prudence, met with an action for libel.

Lord Camden was a strenuous opponent of Fox's India Bill, took an animated part in the debates on important public matters till within two years of his death, introduced in 1786 the scheme of a regency on occasion of the king's insanity, and to the last zealously defended his early views on the functions of juries, especially of their right to decide on all questions of libel.

Seven bishops, who presented Trial of a petition asking him to relieve the clergy from the burthen of proclaiming what they believed to be illegal, were brought to trial for publishing a seditious libel.

In 1907 Prince Billow was made the subject of a disgraceful libel, which received more attention than it deserved because it coincided with the Harden-Moltke scandals; his character was, however,completely vindicated,and the libeller, a journalist named Brand, received a term of imprisonment.

All these books tended to increase the ill-feeling between author and public; the Whig press was virulent and scandalous in its comments, and Cooper plunged into a series of actions for libel.

Lloyd was an indefatigable opponent of the Roman Catholic tendencies of James II., and was one of the seven bishops who for refusing to have the Declaration of Indulgence read in his diocese was charged with publishing a seditious libel against the king and acquitted (1688).

Popular Protestant feeling ran very high at the time, partly in consequence of the recent establishment of a Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy by Pius IX., and criminal proceedings against Newman for libel resulted in an acknowledged gross miscarriage of justice.

Jason Donovan won libel damages over inaccurate claims about his sexuality, so it is still considered actionable.

Evidently you hold the laws of defamation and the wisdom of libel juries in the utmost contempt.

It was a libel case between two very eminent and powerful financiers, against both of whom charges of considerable defalcation were brought.

However with criminal libel publication to the person defamed is sufficient.

And despite the libel laws demanding that she prove deliberate distortion by Irving, the final judgment upheld every major aspect of her defense.

His story was entirely false, I found out later, a libel on a very hospitable house.

The charge was one of publishing seditious libel and inciting to commit breaches of the incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797.

For one thing, such titles are often themselves libelous, and simply quoting it back repeats the libel.

The cover is wide-ranging and includes libel and slander actions and professional indemnity.

The following year his attacks on the governor of New York led to him being arrested for seditious libel.

There would be more noughts on the end of a successful libel award than there are in the Sri Lankan telephone directory.

Other areas of litigation, where ADR might be suitable, were suggested, including contested probate, libel and defamation.

Some thoughtful men saw clearly the danger of leaving Ireland to be seized by the first chance corner, and the Libel of English Policy, written about 1436, contains a long and interesting passage declaring England's interests in protecting Ireland as " a boterasse and a poste " of her own power.

Shebbeare (1709-1788), a violent party writer of the day, for a libel against the government contained in his notorious Letters to the People of England, which were published in the years 1756-1758.

As a proof of Pratt's moderation in a period of passionate party warfare and frequent state trials, it is noted that this was the only official prosecution for libel which he set on foot.

In 1763 he was condemned for blasphemous libel in his paper called the Free Enquirer (nine numbers only).

Zola's object was a prosecution for libel, and a judicial inquiry into the whole affaire, and at the trial, which took place in Paris in February, a fierce flood of light was thrown on the case.

Human nature indignantly rejects her portrait in the Yahoo as a gross libel, and the protest is fully warranted.

Previous to 1886 the crime of murder was only punishable by 10 years' imprisonment, a sentence which in practice was reduced to two-thirds of that term; slander and libel were formerly offences which the law had no power to restrain, and no responsibility attached to seditious publications.