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slander of title

noun/ˈslɑːndər əv ˈtaɪtəl/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A false and malicious assertion disparaging a person's ownership of property, causing loss.

By wrongly registering a charge over the land, the defendant committed slander of title and frustrated the sale.

Topic: Litigation in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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