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- Actionable per se: Words or actions that are automatically considered legally harmful and can be the basis for a lawsuit without the need to prove additional harm. For example, if someone accuses a person of stealing without any evidence, it is considered actionable per se.
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Actionable per se: Words or actions that are automatically considered legally harmful and can be the basis for a lawsuit without the need to prove additional harm. For example, if someone accuses a person of stealing without any evidence, it is considered actionable per se.
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In lawsuits for libel or slander, words that impute the commission of a crime, a loathsome disease, or unchastity, or remarks that affect the plaintiff’s business, trade, profession, calling, or office may be actionable per se.
In lawsuits for libel or slander, words that impute the commission of a crime, a loathsome disease, or unchastity, or remarks that affect the plaintiff's business, trade, profession, calling, or office may be actionable per se.
In lawsuits for libel or slander, words that impute the commission of a crime, a loathsome disease, or unchastity, or remarks that affect the plaintiff's business, trade, profession, calling, or office may be actionable per se.
Libel per se is a defamatory statement that is actionable in itself. To constitute libel per se, the words themselves must be damaging to the affected person. As a result, words that can reasonably be interpreted as having another meaning do not constitute libel per se.
The significance of whether the defamation is per se or per quod is intertwined with the issue of fault. If the statement is actionable per se, the plaintiff must prove actual damages if the defendant was merely negligent in making the false statement.
Actionable Per Se definition: Actions that do not require the allegation or proof of additional facts to constitute a cause of action nor any allegation or proof that damages were suffered.
