CRIMINAL LIBEL - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CRIMINAL LIBEL? Definition of CRIMINAL LIBEL in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

A libel which is punishable criminally; one  which tends to excite a breach of the peace. 3 Greenl. Ev. § 164; Walker v. Wickens, 49 Kan. 42, 30 P. 181; Kennerly v. Hennessy, 68 Fla. 138, 66 So. 729, 19 A.L.R. 1468. The malicious defamation of a person made public by any printing  or writing  tending  to provoke  him to wrath and  to deprive him  of the  benefits  of public confidence and social intercourse.

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