Talk:Defamation/Archives/2016

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Little...?

Any explanation of WHY libel is derived from "libellus", EG. What a "little book" has to do with smearing people's reputations? 68.39.174.238 08:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

provided explanatory cites -- Boracay Bill 10:53, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The Online Etymological Dictionary is helpful here. In the entry for libel, it gives the following definitions: "a little book, pamphlet; petition, written accusation, complaint." I think the word was probably intended to mean "written accusation" in the defamation context. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=libel Ibnsina786 (talk) 20:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Latin

Whilst lawyers love to hide behind latin phrases, could someone please provide a translation of Horaces pun, so we can all see how funny it is (or is not), or else remove it. The same goes for some of the other latin phrases - it is unclear what is a direct translation, and what is not.
Arjayay (talk) 18:47, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I could not find a complete translation, but this is pretty good. "The Praetor's Edict, codified circa 130 A.D., held that a person could be prosecuted for shouting abuse 'contrary to public morals' at someone - qui adversus bonos mores convicium cui fecisse cuiusve opera factum esse dicitur, quo adversus bonos mores convicium fieret, in eum iudicum dabo. https://books.google.com/books?id=-BxaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT64&lpg=PT64&dq=qui+adverscus+bonos+mores+convicium&source=bl&ots=rqtDl9yWmy&sig=8eTUNaj8iMpdXPBvv3VgCqK_DKA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBrsOhxvPMAhVSRFIKHbUeA5IQ6AEILjAG#v=onepage&q=qui%20adversus%20bonos%20mores%20convicium&f=false Ibnsina786 (talk) 20:42, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Second head?

In the history section, this confusing sentence appears, "The second head included defamatory statements made in private, and in this case the offense lay in the content of the imputation, not in the manner of its publication." I thought there might be a metaphor of defamation having two heads, but there is no metaphor like that in the text. I could not find a sentence about a first head. Maybe "head" is supposed to be another word? Ibnsina786 (talk) 20:11, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

May the consequences of planted drugs be considered as defamation?

Supposing that some law enforcement officer, working in a jail, got into a conflict with other people also working there and that these people, instead of shooting him with a bulllet, proceeded to ruin his reputation and carreer (resulting in damaged personnal life and divorce, and, I suppose, depression) by the mean of planting illegal drugs in that person's personnal belonging within the jail. Would that be considered as a form of defamation?173.237.241.217 (talk) 22:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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