• 1997 - Slander
  • C-9.20
    • Defamation
    • Moral Turpitude
    • Tort Liability
    • Tort Liability
  • Slander is a false and unprivileged publication other than libel, which:

     

    1) charges a person with crime or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime;

     

    2) imputes the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease to that person;

     

    3) tends to directly injure a person in respect to that person's office, profession, trade, or business either by imputing a general lack of the qualifications peculiarly required by the office or other occupation, or by imputing something with reference to that person's office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profits;

     

    4) imputes impotence or lack of chastity to a person; or

     

    5) causes actual damage by natural consequence.

    • 12.1-22-03
    • 12.1-22-06
    • Eli v. Griggs County Hosp. & Nursing Home, 385 NW2d 99 (ND 1986)
    • Gajewsky v. Bratcher, 307 NW2d 826 (ND 1981)
    • Little v. Spaeth, 394 NW2d 700 (ND 1986)
    • Varriano v. Bang, 541 NW2d 707 (ND 1996)
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