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California Civil Code Section 46

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Slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally
uttered, and also communications by radio or any mechanical or other
means which:
   1. Charges any person with crime, or with having been indicted,
convicted, or punished for crime;
   2. Imputes in him the present existence of an infectious,
contagious, or loathsome disease;
   3. Tends directly to injure him in respect to his office,
profession, trade or business, either by imputing to him general
disqualification in those respects which the office or other
occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with
reference to his office, profession, trade, or business that has a
natural tendency to lessen its profits;
   4. Imputes to him impotence or a want of chastity; or
   5. Which, by natural consequence, causes actual damage.

Last modified: January 12, 2009