Libelous
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Constituting a libel.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Defamatory; of the nature of a libel; constituting or involving libel.
— Libelons per se. A defamatory publication is libelous per se when the words are of such a character that an action may be brought upon them without the necessity of showing any special damage, the imputation being such that the law will presume that any one so slandered must have suffered damage. See Mayrant v. Richardson, 1 Nott & McC. (S. C.) 349, 9 Am Dec. 707; Woolworth v. Star Co.., 07 App. Div. 525, 90 N. Y. Supp. 147 ; Morse v. Times-Republican Printing Co.., 124 Iowa, 707, 100 N. W. 867.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Defamatory; of the nature of a libel; constiluting or involving libel.