India is a democratic country and our Constitution rightly embodies this principle. It is the supreme law of the land and in this instrument the lawmakers ensured that it contained comprehensive fundamental rights for every citizen of India. These are given in Part III of the Constitution of India under Articles 12 to 35.

Defamation is when a person states harmful or negative things about another person that are not true. To defame someone means to strip that person of their dignified reputation and to harm their image in society.

Legal Maxims are well-established principles or propositions of law or legal policy that are usually expressed in Latin and date back to the Medieval era. They are more general than ordinary rules of law and are supposed to guide judges in deciding cases. They are not law themselves but part of the common law or customs of the land.

Whenever a person has been a victim of a wrong, he/she files a suit. Generally, suits in law are of two types- Civil or Criminal. Tort law is the area of the law that covers most civil suits. In general, any claim that arises in civil court, with the exception of contractual disputes, falls under tort law. Defamation, accidents, defects in any product or service and many such things are covered under the Law of Torts. 

Even before the law was introduced, there were some principles that governed the behaviour and actions of the common man. These were called the principles of natural justice. These principles were not codified, nor were they written in any book or enforced by the higher authority. They were accepted widely by every person and understood as the norm.