A Treatise on the Law of Slander, Libel, Scandalum Magnatum, and False Rumours: Including the Rules which Regulate Intellectual Communications, Affecting the Characters of Individuals and the Interests of the Public : with a Description of the Practice and Pleadings of Personal Actions, Informations, Indictments, Attachments for Contempts, &c., Connected with the SubjectG. Lamson, 1826 - 616 Seiten |
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... held , " that words , to be of themselves actionable , without regard to the person or foreign help , must either endanger the party's life , or subject him to in- famous punishment , and that it is not sufficient that the party may be ...
... held , " that words , to be of themselves actionable , without regard to the person or foreign help , must either endanger the party's life , or subject him to in- famous punishment , and that it is not sufficient that the party may be ...
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... held , that where the penalty for an offence by a statute was of a pecuniary nature , an imputation of such an offence would not be actionable , even though in default of payment the statute should direct the offender to be set in the ...
... held , that where the penalty for an offence by a statute was of a pecuniary nature , an imputation of such an offence would not be actionable , even though in default of payment the statute should direct the offender to be set in the ...
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... held other- wise . * ( 2 ) In the case of Jones v . Herne , † C. J. Willes said , that if it was now res integra , he should hold , that calling a man a rogue , or a woman a whore , in pub- lic company , was actionable . It seems also ...
... held other- wise . * ( 2 ) In the case of Jones v . Herne , † C. J. Willes said , that if it was now res integra , he should hold , that calling a man a rogue , or a woman a whore , in pub- lic company , was actionable . It seems also ...
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... held ac- tionable , whilst the statute making it a temporal offence was in force . ‡ Although the action itself is limited to cases where the offence charged is defined by law , yet , as has been shown , the placing the party in ...
... held ac- tionable , whilst the statute making it a temporal offence was in force . ‡ Although the action itself is limited to cases where the offence charged is defined by law , yet , as has been shown , the placing the party in ...
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... held , that the words were ac- tionable . ( 1 ) So in many cases the charging a mere solicita- tion or attempt to commit a felony has been held actionable . In Lady Cockain's case , * the words were " my Lady Cockain did offer two ...
... held , that the words were ac- tionable . ( 1 ) So in many cases the charging a mere solicita- tion or attempt to commit a felony has been held actionable . In Lady Cockain's case , * the words were " my Lady Cockain did offer two ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 570 - That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Seite ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Seite 146 - ... any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord, or slander may grow between the king and his people, or the great men of the realm ; and he that doth so, shall be taken and kept in prison, until he hath brought him into the court who was the first author of the tale.
Seite 569 - ... the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Seite 205 - Pigott, for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new...
Seite xxv - The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth...
Seite 570 - An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Functions of Juries in Cases of Libel. [AD 1792.] " WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether on the trial of an indictment or information for the making or publishing any libel, where an issue or issues are joined between the king and the defendant or defendants, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, it be competent to the jury impanelled to try the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue...
Seite 281 - After non-assumpsit pleaded, and a verdict for the plaintiff, it was moved in arrest of judgment that the plaintiff could not bring his action, for he was a stranger to the consideration.
Seite 547 - ... the secret cabinets and bureaus of every subject in this kingdom will be thrown open to the search and inspection of a messenger, whenever the secretary of state shall think fit to charge, or even to suspect, a person to be the author, printer, or publisher of a seditious libel.
Seite 422 - May aforesaid, in all actions of trespass, assault and battery, and other personal actions, wherein the judge at the trial of the cause shall not find and certify under his hand upon the back of the record, that an assault and battery was sufficiently proved by the plaintiff against the defendant, or that the freehold or title of the land mentioned in the plaintiff's declaration was chiefly in question...