Colloquium

A speaking together: a conversation. An averment, in an action for slander, that the defendant spoke the words in a certain conversation {in quodam colloquio) he had with another person, concerning the plaintiff. When the words are actionable in themselves, a colloquium, averring a speaking of and concerning the plaintiff, is sufficient. When the words have a slanderous meaning, not of their own intrinsic force, but by reason of the existence of some extraneous Blatch.

84-91 (1879), cases; The Clara, 102 U. S. 203 (1880), cases; The Benefactor, ib. 214 (1880). 1 Schoonmaker v. Gilmore, 102 U. S. 118 (1880), cases. 2 The City of Norwich, 118 U. S, 469, 489-506 (1866), Bradley, J.: Waite, C. J., Field, Woods, and Blatchfo Td, JJ., concurring; Matthews, Miller, Harlan, and Gray, JJ., dissenting — ib. pp. 526-41.

The other cases, The Scotland, ib.

607, and The Great Western, ib.

520, being considered in the same connection. »The Great Western, 118 U. S. 520 (1886). See also Norwich Co. v. Wright, 18 Wall. 104, 116-28 (1871), cases; The Benefactor, 103 U. S. 246 (1880). • The North Star, 106 U. S. 20, 17-22 (1882), cases, Bradley, J. See, as to dividing the loss, 2 Law Q. Rev. 357-63 (1886). fact, this fact must first be averred as inducement, and then there must he a colloquhtm^ averring a spealcing of or concerning the plaintiff. Lastly, the word " meaning," or innuendo, is used to connect the matters thus introduced with the particular words laid, showing their identity, and drawing what is the legal inference from the whole declaration that such, was, under the circumstances thus set out, the meaning of the words." See Innuendo; Slander.