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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Slander is a false and unprivileged publication other than libel, which:
1. Charges any person with crime, or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime;
2. Imputes to the person the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease;
3. Tends directly to injure the person in respect to the person's office, profession, trade, or business, either by imputing to the person general disqualifications in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with reference to the person's office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profits;
4. Imputes to the person impotence or want of chastity; or
5. By natural consequence causes actual damage.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - North Dakota Century Code Title 14. Domestic Relations and Persons § 14-02-04. Civil slander defined - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nd/title-14-domestic-relations-and-persons/nd-cent-code-sect-14-02-04/
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