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libel definition - legal

n

  1. A false and defamatory statement expressed in writing or in an electronic medium.
  2. The first document or pleading filed in an admiralty action, which is now called a complaint. 

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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