The legal nature of the exceptio veritatis criminal libel
Keywords:
Libel (calumny), exceptio veritatis (defence of justification, defence of truth), legal nature, element of a criminal offenceAbstract
While the exceptio veritatis (defence of the truth) clause enjoys a long tradition in Spanish Criminal Law as a defence against prosecution for criminal libel (calumny), there is an on going debate among the scholars over its legal nature. This paper studiesthe role of the exceptio veritatis clause: some general considerations are followed by a conceptual examination of the criminal offence of libel and a concise review of its inclusion in successive Spanish Criminal Codes enacted from 1822 on. Finally, the paper describes the main positions on the legal nature of this clause.Downloads
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2013-01-09
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Armendáriz León, C. (2013). The legal nature of the exceptio veritatis criminal libel. Icade. Journal of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas, (70), 221–243. Retrieved from https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistaicade/article/view/645
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