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Definition of Defamations
1. defamation [n] - See also: defamation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defamations
Literary usage of Defamations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, and Separation as to the Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1891)
"Public defamations : — •What and How. — A public defamation is a species of
cruelty.4 And in Louisiana it is by statute made a separate ground for the ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce: With the Evidence, Practice by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1881)
"Public defamations : — In Louisiana, — these, when of the required magnitude and
sort, uttered by one of the married parties to the injury of the other, ..."
3. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1880)
"The spiritual courts also had jurisdiction of defamations. In Palmer v. Thorpe,
4 Co. 19, it is said ; " Touching defamations determinable in the ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"Written defamations are, when there is no justification or excuse, ... Spoken
defamations arc only actionable when they arc the proximate cause of special ..."
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