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<blockquote data-quote="ezmoney5150" data-source="post: 2331170" data-attributes="member: 6184"><p>If you think I dodged your points, I'm sorry. Tell me which one I dodged and I'll answer them. Slander is a bit extreme.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>slander</strong></span></p><p>n. oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth willharm the reputation of the person defamed. Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit.Damages (payoff for worth) for slander may be limited to actual (special) damages unless there is maliciousintent, since such damages are usually difficult to specify and harder to prove. Some statements such as anuntrue accusation of having committed a crime, having a loathsome disease, or being unable to perform one'soccupation are treated as slander per se since the harm and malice are obvious, and therefore usually result ingeneral and even punitive damage recovery by the person harmed. Words spoken over the air on television orradio are treated as libel (written defamation) and not slander on the theory that broadcasting reaches a largeaudience as much if not more than printed publications. (See: <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defamation" target="_blank">defamation</a>, <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fair+comment" target="_blank">fair comment</a>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ezmoney5150, post: 2331170, member: 6184"] If you think I dodged your points, I'm sorry. Tell me which one I dodged and I'll answer them. Slander is a bit extreme. [SIZE=6][B]slander[/B][/SIZE] n. oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth willharm the reputation of the person defamed. Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit.Damages (payoff for worth) for slander may be limited to actual (special) damages unless there is maliciousintent, since such damages are usually difficult to specify and harder to prove. Some statements such as anuntrue accusation of having committed a crime, having a loathsome disease, or being unable to perform one'soccupation are treated as slander per se since the harm and malice are obvious, and therefore usually result ingeneral and even punitive damage recovery by the person harmed. Words spoken over the air on television orradio are treated as libel (written defamation) and not slander on the theory that broadcasting reaches a largeaudience as much if not more than printed publications. (See: [URL='http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defamation']defamation[/URL], [URL='http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fair+comment']fair comment[/URL]) [/QUOTE]
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