A form of publication which tends to cause one to lose the esteem of the community is defamation. This is injury to reputation. A person can be held liable for the defamation of another. In order to prove defamation, the plaintiff must prove:
- that a statement was made about the plaintiff's reputation, honesty or integrity that is not true;
- publication to a third party (i.e., another person hears or reads the statement); and
- the plaintiff suffers damages as a result of the statement.
Slander is a form of defamation that consists of making false oral statements about a person which would damage that person's reputation. If one spreads a rumor that his neighbor has been in jail and this is not true, the person making such false statements could be held liable for slander.
Defamation which occurs by written statements is known as libel. Libel also may result from a picture or visual representation. Truth is an absolute defense to slander or libel.
Some statements, while libelous or slanderous, are absolutely privileged in the sense that the statements can be made without fear of a lawsuit for slander. The best example is statements made in a court of law. An untrue statement made about a person in court which damages that person's reputation will generally not cause liability to the speaker as far as slander is concerned. However, if the statement is untrue, the person making it may be liable for criminal perjury.
If a communication is made in good faith on a subject in which the party communicating it has a legitimate right or interest in communicating it, this communication may be exempt from slander liability due to a qualified privileged.
The following form letter demands that someone cease making libelous or slanderous statements, or appropriate legal action will be taken.
Chandler Arizona Cease and Desist Letter for Libelous or Slanderous Statements - Defamation of Character
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1. : a maker or seller of tallow or wax candles and usually soap. 2. : a retail dealer in provisions and supplies or equipment of a specified kind. a yacht chandler.
/???ps t?ændl?r/ (also chandler) ?a person or shop that sells equipment for ships and boats.
A person who sells supplies for boats or ships: The ship's chandler always needs extra help when a boat comes in. He became a yacht chandler in Shaldon, at the mouth of the River Teign.
Origin of chandler1. 1275?1325; Middle English chandeler candlestick, maker or seller of candles < Anglo-French, Old French chandelier, literally, someone or something connected with candles, equivalent to chandelle candle + -ier -ier 2.
Chandler (occupation), originally head of the medieval household office responsible for candles, now a person who makes or sells candles. Ship chandler, a dealer in supplies or equipment for ships.
Chandler (noun as in dealer) Strongest matches. banker merchant retailer trader trafficker vendor wholesaler.
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Chandler in Occupations topic From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchand?ler /?t???ndl? $ ?t?ændl?r/ noun [countable] someone who made or sold candles in the past ? ship's chandlerExamples from the Corpuschandler? In 1788 the Tandragee Circuit was formed in the house of James Lemon, a chandler.
