ABSTRACT
Defamation is communication to others which diminishes the good name of a person. It tends to injure a person’s reputation and to do damage to the esteem, respect, and confidence of the individual.1 One case defined defamation as:
[W]ords which tend to expose one to public hatred, shame, obloquy, contumely, odium, contempt, ridicule, aversion, ostracism, degradation or disgrace, or to induce an evil opinion of
Trials 499, Defamation, 2009.
