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Consider the following statements:
In case of joint publication of defamatory statement:
1. A corporation is liable for the malice of its agent.
2. The proprietor of a newspaper is liable for the malice of the editor.
3. A lawyer is liable for the malice in the notice issued under the instructions of his client.
4. The employer is liable for the malice of a typist who types a defamatory letter as dictated by his employer.
Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:
In case of joint publication of defamatory statement:
1. A corporation is liable for the malice of its agent.
2. The proprietor of a newspaper is liable for the malice of the editor.
3. A lawyer is liable for the malice in the notice issued under the instructions of his client.
4. The employer is liable for the malice of a typist who types a defamatory letter as dictated by his employer.
Which of the statements given above are correct? Correct Answer 1 and 2

Related Questions

In which of the following situations is communication treated as published and defamatory?
1. Dictating a letter to one's typist containing defamatory statement about another
2. Sending a defamatory letter to the plaintiff in a language supposed to be known to the plaintiff
3. The husband writing a letter to his wife containing some defamatory aspersions concerning her father
4. When a libelous letter addressed to the plaintiff is, in the ordinary course of business, opened by his clerk
Select the correct answer using the given below:
One X wrote defamatory letter against Y, a copy of which he sent to the Chairman of the Municipal Committee and other for publication in a local newspaper in which it was duly published. Y sued X and the editor, publisher and management of the newspaper for damages. Subsequently, a sum of Rs. 5,000 was paid by the newspaper by way of damages to Y and an apology was also published in the newspaper. Thereupon Y withdrew his action against the newspaper but not against X. X pleads that the release of other joint tort-feasors amounted to his release also
A, alleging that he is the proprietor of a village, sues B, C and D for ejectment. The defence is that A is not the proprietor and that part of the village belongs to B, C and D, and the rest to X, Y and Z. The court finds that A is not the proprietor, and A's suit is dismissed. A then sues, X, Y and Z and also B, C and D for declaration that he is the proprietor of the village and for possession.
Mr. stenley employed a certain number of typist for his project. 8 days later 20% of the typist left the job and it was found that it took as much time to complete the rest work from then as the entire work needed with all the employed typists. The average speed of a typist is 20 pages/hour. Minimum how many typist could be employed?
Two typist of varying skills can do a job in 6 minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6 minutes, they would be left with $$\frac{1}{5}$$ of the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working alone ?
The following question consists of three statements numbered I, II and III. Decide if data given in the statements are sufficient to answer the questions below. Eight members – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre and all belong to different profession lawyer, doctor, musician, engineer, clerk, manager, typist and waiter. What is the profession of the person who sits opposite to the engineer? I. The clerk sits opposite to F (musician) who sits adjacent to lawyer and engineer. II. C is a typist and sits between Doctor who sits on his left and clerk. III. The clerk does not sit adjacent to Manager and waiter does not sit opposite to engineer.
Consider the following code sequence having five instructions I1 to I5. Each of these instructions has the following format. OP Ri, Rj, Rk Where operation OP is performed on contents of registers Rj and Rk and the result is stored in register Ri I1: ADD R1, R2, R3 I2: MUL R7, R1, R3 I3: SUB R4, R1, R5 I4: ADD R3, R2, R4 I5: MUL R7, R8, R9 Consider the following three statements. S1: There is an anti-dependence between instructions I2 and I5 S2: There is an anti-dependence between instructions I2 and I4 S3: Within an instruction pipeline an anti-dependence always creates one or more stalls Which one of the above statements is/are correct?
The employer has told the employee in the morning that when the employee leaves the office in the evening to go to his house, he should pick up Rs. 50,000 lying in the drawer of the employer and deliver the same of 'X', to whom the employer owes Rs. 50,000. At 12.00 noon, in the absence of the employer the employee picks up the money and absconds. The employee is liable to be charged for:
Two typists of varying skills can do a typing job in 6 minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6 minutes, they would be left with 1/5 of the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist, to complete the typing job working alone?
Two typists of varying skills can do a job in 8 minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed alone for 6 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 8 minutes, they would be left with (1/5) of the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working alone?