"Defamation which is verbal is slander; in writing it constitutes libel. It is a criminal offence as well as a civil wrong punishable in damages; in short, a tort. The criminal law is constitutionally void. It is embodied in Macaulay’s Penal Code enacted in 1860, (Sections 499 and 500). The civil law is not codified in a statute but, like much of the law on torts, it is based on case law, domestic and English."
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