Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Summons and Plaint for Libel or Slander.

LXV. In Actions of Libel and Slander the Plaintiff shall be at liberty to aver that the Words or Matter complained of were used in a defamatory Sense, specifying such alleged defamatory Sense, without any prefatory Averment to show how such Words or Matter were used in that Sense.