defamatory matter

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• Defamation — This article is about the malicious statement. For the 2009 film, see Defamation (film). Libel and Slander redirect here. For other uses, see Libel (disambiguation) and Slander (disambiguation). Vilification and Calumny redirect here. For the… …   Wikipedia

• South African law of delict — The South African law of delict engages primarily with the circumstances in which one person can claim compensation from another for harm that has been suffered. [1] JC Van der Walt and Rob Midgley define a delict, in general terms [...] as a… …   Wikipedia

• Libel — • A malicious publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign, or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes any living person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes or tends to …   Catholic encyclopedia

• publication — To make public; to make known to people in general; to bring before public; to exhibit, display, disclose or reveal. Tiffany Productions v. Dewing, D.C. Md., 50 F.2d 911, 914. The act of publishing anything; offering it to public notice, or… …   Black's law dictionary

• Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation — Infobox Court Case name=Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation court=High Court of Australia date decided=8 July 1997 full name=David Russell Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation citations=… …   Wikipedia

• Prior restraint — is a legal term referring to a government s actions that prevent materials from being published. Censorship that requires a person to seek governmental permission in the form of a license or imprimatur before publishing anything constitutes prior …   Wikipedia

• tort — /tawrt/, n. Law. a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another s person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation. [1350 1400; ME: injury,… …   Universalium

• Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox — Film Corp., 80 N.Y.S.2d 575 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1948), aff d, 87 N.Y.S.2d 430 (N.Y. App. Div. 1949), was a copyright lawsuit. In The Iron Curtain , a 1948 motion picture depicting Soviet espionage in Canada, Twentieth Century Fox used compositions by… …   Wikipedia

• collocation — A classification of the creditors of an estate made for the purpose of paving them off in proper order. colloquium. The allegations in a complaint, declaration, or petition in an action for libel or slander which point to the plaintiff its the… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• judicial proceedings — Proceedings before a court of justice or before a judge acting in a judicial capacity. As to what constitutes a judicial proceeding within the rule of privilege as to defamatory matter published in the course of such proceedings, see 33 Am J1st L …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• scandal — Defamatory reports or rumors; aspersion or slanderous talk, uttered recklessly or maliciously. Scandalous matter may be ordered stricken from the pleadings by a motion to strike. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(f). See also defamation …   Black's law dictionary