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 in Personal Actions, Informations, Indictments, Attachments for Contempts, &c. Connected with the SubjectW. Clarke, 1813 - 688페이지 |
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... present state of things to be so perfect as to exclude any alteration for the better . The convenience , however , of society , undoubt- edly requires that some limit should be prescribed to communications affecting the reputation of ...
... present state of things to be so perfect as to exclude any alteration for the better . The convenience , however , of society , undoubt- edly requires that some limit should be prescribed to communications affecting the reputation of ...
9 페이지
... presents its in- conveniences , and the only question is , which is the more tolerable , to see no truth but through the the suspicious medium of power , or to risk the disorders and scepticism which may flow from a press unfettered by ...
... presents its in- conveniences , and the only question is , which is the more tolerable , to see no truth but through the the suspicious medium of power , or to risk the disorders and scepticism which may flow from a press unfettered by ...
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... PRESENT TREATISE . In pursuing this investigation , the following me- thod is proposed to be observed . 1st . To reduce the subject into the most simple divisions of which it is capable , with reference to 12 DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT .
... PRESENT TREATISE . In pursuing this investigation , the following me- thod is proposed to be observed . 1st . To reduce the subject into the most simple divisions of which it is capable , with reference to 12 DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT .
61 페이지
... present too frequent . We are to understand words in the same sense as the hearers understood them ; but when words stand indifferent , and are equally liable to two dis- tinct interpretations , we ought to construe them in mitiori ...
... present too frequent . We are to understand words in the same sense as the hearers understood them ; but when words stand indifferent , and are equally liable to two dis- tinct interpretations , we ought to construe them in mitiori ...
141 페이지
... present title , and therefore no cause of action . But the two Chief Justices conceived that although he had not any present title , it appeared that he had a possibility of inheriting the lands , and that being offered a sum of money ...
... present title , and therefore no cause of action . But the two Chief Justices conceived that although he had not any present title , it appeared that he had a possibility of inheriting the lands , and that being offered a sum of money ...
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635 페이지 - 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...
320 페이지 - 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.
8 페이지 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
635 페이지 - 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...
625 페이지 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer,'* with intent to incite the.
8 페이지 - If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of innovations may propagate his projects, there can be no settlement; if every murmurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace ; and if every sceptick in theology may teach his follies, there can be no religion.
272 페이지 - Liberty of criticism must be allowed, or we should have neither purity of taste nor of morals. Fair discussion is essentially necessary to the truth of history and the advancement of science. That publication, therefore, I shall never consider as a libel which has for its object, not to injure the reputation of any individual, but to correct misrepresentations of fact, to refute sophistical reasoning, to expose a vicious taste in literature, or to censure what is hostile to morality.
517 페이지 - Of all monarchs, indeed, since the revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
523 페이지 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but, if he publishes what is improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
625 페이지 - But where the act is itself unlawful, as in the case of a libel, the PROOF of justification or excuse lies on the defendant ; and in failure thereof, the law implies a criminal intent.