is the malicious defamation of a man's character by spoken words, as libel is by written words. (See LIBEL.) Slanderous words are of two kinds. First, those actionable in themselves; and second, those which are naturally calculated to occasion damage to the person of whom they are spoken. Of the former class are all words imputing to a man some crime punishable in the temporal courts, tending to injure him in his profession, trade, or calling by which he gains his livelihood; tending to his exclusion from society, or to disparage him in an office of public trust. It is presumed by the law, that all such words have a natural Slave Lake and necessary tendency to injure the person of whom they have been spoken, and allows any party to sue for damages, without proving that any have been in fact occasioned. To say of a man that he has committed a crime for which one can transport him; to say that he has an infectious disease; to call a lawyer a knave, a physician a quack, or a tradesman a bankrupt, or charge a magistrate or judge with corruption, is actionable. "Lord Campbell's Act," as it is called (Statute 6 & 7 Vict., c. 96), was passed in 1843, for the better protection of private character from slander and libel. By 15 & 16 Vict., c. 76, § 70, it is enacted that, in all cases of slander, the defendant is precluded from paying money into court by way of compensation or amends.