Article 353Definition of libel

Act No. 3815 · Revised Penal CodeKey provision

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Libel defined: a public and malicious imputation of a crime, vice, defect, real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance that dishonors or discredits a person, made in writing or by similar means.

Official text — Act No. 3815

Definition of libel.

-A libel is a 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.

Source: lawphil.net (Act No. 3815 as amended)

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