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libel

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libel
1. Law
a. the publication of defamatory matter in permanent form, as by a written or printed statement, picture, etc.
b. the act of publishing such matter
2. Ecclesiastical law a claimant's written statement of claim
3. Scots law the formal statement of a charge


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Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
"The extracts from my son's Diary are a libel on his character," she said.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in practice in that day also.
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