Title 14 — Domestic Relations and Persons
48 chapters · 709 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-01 General personal rights
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Every person, subject to the qualifications and restrictions provided by law, has the right of protection from bodily restraint or harm, from personal insult, from defamation, and from injury to the person's personal relations.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-02 Defamation classified
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Defamation is effected by: 1. Libel; or 2. Slander.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-03 Civil libel defined
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Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes the person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injur…
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-04 Civil slander defined
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Slander is a false and unprivileged publication other than libel, which: 1. Charges any person with crime, or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime; 2. Imputes to the person the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease; 3. Tends d…
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-05 Privileged communications
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A privileged communication is one made: 1. In the proper discharge of an official duty; 2. In any legislative or judicial proceeding or in any other proceeding authorized by law; 3. In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein by one who also is interested, …
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-06 Offenses against personal relation
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All civil claims for relief for breach of promise to marry, alienation of affection, criminal conversation, and seduction are abolished. A claim for relief brought before July 1, 1983, under this section, is valid until final judgment is rendered.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-07 Force to protect
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Any necessary force may be used to protect from wrongful injury the person or property of one's self, or of a wife, husband, child, parent, or other relative, or member of one's family, or of a ward, servant, master, or guest.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-08 Libel suits against newspapers - Retraction
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Repealed by S.L. 1995, ch. 332, § 11.
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-09 Defamation by visual or radio broadcast - Limitation of liability
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The owner, licensee, or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee, or operator, are not liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a vis…
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-10 Uniform Single Publication Act
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No person may have more than one claim for relief for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an aud…
N.D.C.C. § 14-02-11 State policy against discrimination
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Repealed by S.L. 1985, ch. 82, § 162.