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Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law.The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]
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Criminal libel is a legal term, of English origin, which may be used with one of two distinct meanings, in those common law jurisdictions where it is still used.. It is an alternative name for the common law offence which is also known (in order to distinguish it from other offences of libel) as "defamatory libel" [1] or, occasionally, as "criminal defamatory libel".
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
Substantial truth is a legal doctrine affecting libel and slander laws in common law jurisdictions such as the United States or the United Kingdom. United States law [ edit ]
The Libel Act 1843, commonly known as Lord Campbell's Libel Act, [4] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It enacted several important codifications of and modifications to the common law tort of libel. This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 4 of, [5] and Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, [6] the Defamation Act, 1961.
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