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Defamation

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A false publication calculated to bring one into disrepute.

See 103 Iowa, 214, 64 Am. St. Rep. 175, 39 L. R. A. 734, 72 N. W. 518.