Fair Comment

Fair comment is a legal term for a common law defense in defamation cases (libel or slander).

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Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or comment:

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks’ comment on married life.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)