Montana § 27-1-803 - Slander Defined
Full text of Montana Montana Code Annotated § 27-1-803 — Slander Defined, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 27-1-803. Slander Defined
Slander defined. Slander is a false and unprivileged publication other than libel that: (1) charges any person with crime or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime; (2) imputes in a person the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease; (3) tends directly to injure a person in respect to the person's office, profession, trade, or business, either by imputing to the person general disqualification in those respects that the office or other occupation peculiarly requires or by imputing something with reference to the person's office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profit; (4) imputes to a person impotence or want of chastity; or (5) by natural consequence causes actual damage.
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Section 27-1-803 ("Slander Defined") is part of the Montana Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Montana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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