COLLOQUIM

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COLLOQUIM, pleading. A discourse a conversation or conference.
       2. In actions of slander, it is generally true that an action does not 
  lie for words, on account of, their being merely disgraceful to a person in 
  his office, profession or trade; unless it be averred, that at the time of 
  publishing the words, there was a colloquium concerning the office, 
  profession or trade of the plaintiff. 


       3. In its technical sense, the term colloquium signifies an averment in 
  a declaration that there was a conversation or discourse on the part of the 
  defendant, which connects the slander with the office, profession or trade 
  of the plaintiff; and this colloquium must extend to the whole of the 
  prefatory matter to render the words actionable. 3 Bulst. 83. Vide Bac. Ab. 
  Slander, S, n. 3; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Com. Dig. Action upon the case 
  for Defamation, 6, 7, 8, &c.; Stark. on Sland. 290, et seq.