{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-73.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 73.001","heading":"ELEMENTS OF LIBEL.","body":"A libel is a defamation expressed in written or other graphic form that tends to blacken the memory of the dead or that tends to injure a living person's reputation and thereby expose the person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or financial injury or to impeach any person's honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or to publish the natural defects of anyone and thereby expose the person to public hatred, ridicule, or financial injury.\nActs 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.","path":["CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE","TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT","CHAPTER 73. LIBEL","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.73.htm#73.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:00Z","sha256":"e93bfd420d4441df5ad4facfa86c2a8bb0f94edc29a719aafc89b75b034bdcb3","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-72.055","next":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-73.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}