Talk:Libel (admiralty law)

Cut and paste from English defamation law

I have moved the following passage here as I cannot see what it has to do with defamation:

In admiralty law, a libel was the equivalent of a civil lawsuit. The plaintiff was referred to as the "libellant"; the verb "to libel" means "to sue [in admiralty]". Similar terminology was used in the United States legal system. The term has been rendered obsolete by the merger of the admiralty courts with tribunals of general jurisdiction, and the adoption of simplified rules of civil procedure which specify "one form of action" for all claims.

James500 (talk) 15:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)