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Identify the situations where slander is actionable per se under the English law of Tort:
1. Imputation of criminal offence to the plaintiff
2. Imputation of belonging to the lower caste
3. Imputation of a contagious or infectious disease
4. Imputation of unchastity or adultery to any woman
Select the correct answer using the given below:

Identify the situations where slander is actionable per se under the English law of Tort:
1. Imputation of criminal offence to the plaintiff
2. Imputation of belonging to the lower caste
3. Imputation of a contagious or infectious disease
4. Imputation of unchastity or adultery to any woman
Select the correct answer using the given below: Correct Answer 1, 3 and 4

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(1) Libel, when the defamatory statement is in some permanent and visible form and
(2) Slander, when it is in some trasitefy form, visible or audible. Libel is actionable per se, but slander is actionable only on proof of actual damage.
Factual Situation: A person accused of a crime is arrested by the police. The police give an open statement that the suspect had an extra-marital affair. It is subsequently proved in court that the suspect was innocent of the crime. Will the accused succeed if he files a civil suit for defamation, claiming compensation against the police?
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An advocate who is accused-
1. Of a criminal offence is entitled to conduct his own defence
2. Of a criminal offence is not entitled to conduct his own defence
3. With others of a criminal offence is not entitled to appear at the trial as counsel for his co-accused
4. With others of a criminal offence is entitled to appear at the trial as counsel for his co-accused
Consider the following statements:
Bailable offence within the meaning of Criminal Procedure Code means
1. An offence which is enumerated as bailable in the First Schedule.
2. An offence which is made bailable by any other law for the time being in force.
3. All other offences as stated in criminal law.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
In which of the following situations previous judgment is relevant . . . . . . . .
1. A prosecutes B for adultery with C, A's wife. B denies that C is A's wife but the court convicts B of adultery. Afterwards, C is prosecuted for bigamy in marrying B during A's lifetime.
C says that she never was A's wife. Whether the judgment against B is relevant as against C.
2. A prosecutes B for stealing a cow from him. B is convicted. A, afterwards, sues C for the cow, which B had sold to him before his conviction.
As between A and C whether the judgment against B is relevant?
Choose the correct answer:
In which of following cases originator of defamatory statement will be liable for the damage resulting from repetitive publication by third persons? Answer by using below:
(1) He himself authorized repetition
(2) Repetition was the natural and probable consequences of his act
(3) There was immoral obligation on the person in whose presence the slander was made to repeat it
(4) There was moral obligation on the person in whose absence the slander was made to repeat it
In which one of the following situations is slander actionable perse?