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    Libel and Requirement For Publicity

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    The document defines libel as a public and malicious imputation of a crime or vice against a person that tends to cause dishonor or contempt. Every defamatory imputation is presumed malicious unless shown to be a private communication made in performance of a duty or a fair report of certain official proceedings.

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    The document defines libel as a public and malicious imputation of a crime or vice against a person that tends to cause dishonor or contempt. Every defamatory imputation is presumed malicious unless shown to be a private communication made in performance of a duty or a fair report of certain official proceedings.

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    The document defines libel as a public and malicious imputation of a crime or vice against a person that tends to cause dishonor or contempt. Every defamatory imputation is presumed malicious unless shown to be a private communication made in performance of a duty or a fair report of certain official proceedings.

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    The document defines libel as a public and malicious imputation of a crime or vice against a person that tends to cause dishonor or contempt. Every defamatory imputation is presumed malicious unless shown to be a private communication made in performance of a duty or a fair report of certain official proceedings.

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    Art. 353. Definition of libel.

    — A libel is public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of a


    vice or defect, real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance
    tending to cause the dishonor, discredit, or contempt of a natural or juridical person, or to
    blacken the memory of one who is dead.

    Art. 354. Requirement for publicity. — Every defamatory imputation is presumed to be


    malicious, even if it be true, if no good intention and justifiable motive for making it is shown,
    except in the following cases:

    1. A private communication made by any person to another in the performance of


    any legal, moral or social duty; and

    2. A fair and true report, made in good faith, without any comments or remarks, of
    any judicial, legislative or other official proceedings which are not of confidential
    nature, or of any statement, report or speech delivered in said proceedings, or of any
    other act performed by public officers in the exercise of their functions.

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