JACTITATION

A false boasting; a false claim; a ertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right. The species,of defamation or disparagement of another's title to real estate known at common law as "slander of title" comes under the head of jactitation, and in some jurisdictions (as in Louisiana) a remedy for this injury 1s provided under the name -of an "action of;lac tit at i on." -Jactitation of a right to a church sit• ting appears to be the boasting by a man that he has a right or title to a pew.or sitting in a church to which he hu legally no title.- Jactitation of marriage. In English ecclesi• astical law. The boasting or giving out by a party that he or she is mafried to some other, whereby a common reputation of their matri• mony may ensue.. To defeat that result, the person may be put to a proof of the actual marriage, failing which 11_roof, be or · she is. put to -silence about it. 3 BI.- Comm. 93.-Jae• tUation of tithe a ia the boastins by a man [s. 666]