For slander mean in everyday language one false accusation, made maliciously to cause harm.

In legal sense, as we shall soon see a more restricted meaning the word, but keeps closely aligned with the vulgar. The set of joys and goods that constitute the moral heritage of man is attacked by slander and fought simultaneously in all its noble aspirations. The concept of honor is a complex idea, which can decomposed to its study. In the desire to preserve the honor, enter as factors: 1. the feeling of selfworth, 2. the right to obtain and retain the esteem of others, 3. enjoy the advantages and benefits that we can achieve in the shade of a good reputation and fame. Against all these natural feelings, against all these legitimate interests against these undeniable rights, the slanderer rebels. The false and malicious imputation hurt or wounded in their dignity to slandered. While truth cannot shine, the published estimate and the victim suffers the loss of confidence obtained before or impairment may result in disastrous consequences for their material interests. Article 467. It is slander the false imputation of an offense leading to office proceedings. Comment The imputation that describes this text does not constitute the crime of libel. When the order is proposed to blame, but the defamation, is that an innocent being persecuted by the courts as alleged conviction of a crime; intone slander is only a means of committing a felony, the social crime of false accusation. We will not dwell here on this, suffice us remember that we have discussed elsewhere the reasons already exist and validating this classification. Slander, according to the article that precedes these lines, requires: 1. An imputation, 2. That the complaint is false, 3. That this false imputation is a crime 4. The crime alleged is one which results in office procedure. We say you need about each of these points: 1. To blame is attributed to another an action, a sin, a crime. Where the attribution of a fact to another person may not be very clear, there is no imputation itself, much less can there be for the purposes of law enforcement. The hints, the reluctance, indications, may give life to other responsibilities, but not to try that here. to slander is from the first moment of its apparition taken as such, it is necessary that the imputation is direct and conclusive. The Code does not remove the picture the wrong slander crimes, but, as we shall see in place, is not admissible against the perpetrators in the same way against perpetrators just as guilty of slander against the manifest. 2. The imputation must be false. But, how is it possible to know whether an imputation is false when done? The truth or falsehood of fact attributed, only one process can put it straight. If this procedure is not followed yet, and therefore lacks one of the elements required by law to check the slander, how to start from then presented the case against the accused of such crimes? Procedural laws require, as a rule, two conditions to declare alleged conviction of a crime to a person: 1. The existence of an offense, and 2. That fact that there are substantial grounds to believe that person criminally responsible. How to pay tribute to both these cardinal principles prosecution and the duties imposed by the judicial authority here the substantive law, to pursue criminal libel immediately?

We have attempted to overcome this difficulty, and terrain expired in practice, some Codes, and including our own, in the shadow of exceptional principle, under which to proceed in cases of libel and slander lawsuit is needed offended person, giving with this in the admission of evidence about the certainty of the alleged offense. But other than that why not doctrinal contradiction disappears to pursue one as defendant alleged the existence of a crime, whose characters are not proven, but when the trial finished dictates conviction, it is clear that better query general principles of justice in substantive criminal laws and adjective should be inspired and also the social, the method to which we have alluded in the introduction of this title, reduced to pursue, with few exceptions, intentional defamation, distinguishing only to impose greater or lesser penalty for the crime, if the imputation of fact prove embarrassing and infamous false or true in the judgment is filed.