slander action

'You'll get a slander action on your hands if you aren't careful.

So far, computer conversations seem to have eluded serious libel or slander actions.

Kent stared, wondered who the hell this guy was, telling him all this and risking a slander action.

We should therefore have the interesting situation of the defendant in a slander action becoming-in essence-the plaintiff in a civil suit for murder.

"Well," he said, going to the door and ascertaining that it was opaque, "this is matter for a criminal slander action, so for your own sake as well as mine you will keep it strictly to yourself"; and in a low voice he retailed the facts.

In the 1890's, Edward VII, when he was still the Prince of Wales, appeared as a witness in a slander action brought by a card player accused of cheating and also testified in a divorce case in which he was alleged to have been the third party.