Colloquium
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
One of the usual parts of the declaration in an action for slander. It is a general averment that the words complained of were spoken “of and concerning the plaintiff,” or concerning the extrinsie matters alleged in the inducement, and its offiee is to connect the whole publication with the previous statement. An averment that the words in question are spoken of or concerning some usage, report, or fact which gives to words otherwise indifferent the peculiar defamatory meaning ussigned to them.
16 Pick. 6.