Exceptions for slander


Slander is not actionable unless there is actual damage.

SOMETIMES when a person feels offended, he says he will sue for slander. In other cases, he says that he will sue for libel. It appears that these words are used when a person feels his good name has been damaged. They appear to refer to about the same thing. Readers ask whether there is really a difference.

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