slanderous per se

slanderous per se
Slanderous in itself; such words as are deemed slanderous without proof of special damages. Words which intrinsically, without innuendo, import injury, and are words from which damage, by consent of men generally, flows as a natural consequence. Koerner v. Lawler, 180 Kan. 318, 304 P.2d 926, 929.
Generally an utterance is deemed "slanderous per se" when publication
(a) charges the commission of a crime;
(b) imputes some offensive or loathsome disease which would tend to deprive a person of society;
(c) charges a woman is not chaste; or
(d) tends to injure a party in his trade, business, office or occupation. Munafo v. Helfand, D.C.N.Y., 140 F.Supp. 234, 238.
See Restatement, Second, Torts, No. 570

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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