Word: libelous
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Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will use three London papers for libel in connection with statements they issued against him recently in the St. Peter's bombing case, it was learned last night. Accused with six others of planning the explosion in the Rome cathedral on July 25, Salvemini indignantly denied the charges which were made against him by the Italian government several weeks...
...Libel deleted...
Relaxing, Sir William delivered himself of a few thoughts on libel law in general...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
Nevertheless, after viewing the movie several times, the jury decided that, libel or slander, Princess Youssoupov deserved ?25,000 ($126,800) in damages...