North Dakota § 14-02-04 Civil slander defined

North Dakota Statutes

§ 14-02-04 — Civil slander defined

North Dakota § 14-02-04

Title 14Domestic Relations and Persons

Ch. 14-02Personal Rights

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N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02-04 (2026).

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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.

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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.