 Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.  Tracts on Political and Other Subjects - Pàgina 82per Joseph Towers - 1796Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1741 - 930 pàgines
...defamation, expreffed either to blacken the memory of one who is books laid down, by which we can cerdead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expofe him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. §. 2. But it is tiiiil, That in a larger fenfe the notion of a libel may be applied to any defamation... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1756 - 720 pàgines
...England, is a malicious defamation, exprefled either in words or writing, or by figns, pictures, &c. tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is living. 5 Co. rep. de Libellis famofis, p. i25.— * In England the punifhment may be by fine, pillory,... | |
 | Father of Candor (pseud.), John Almon - 1764 - 330 pàgines
...it is, In a ftrict fenfe, taken for a malicious defamation, expreffed either in writing or printing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one who...him to '• . public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. §. 2. But it is faid, That in a larger fenfe the notion of a libel may be applied to any defamation... | |
 | John Marchant (gent.) - 1764 - 818 pàgines
...Libtl, in a ftriñ fenfe, fignifies a malicious defamation or afperfion of another, «xprcfied cither in printing or writing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one that is dead, or the reputation of one that is alive; and, in a larger fenfe, any defamation whatfoever.... | |
 | Gentleman of the Inner-Temple - 1778 - 178 pàgines
...or Writing, or by Signs, liciousDeuPicvtures, We. tending either to blacken the Memory of Wriu"g"or one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, Printing, or and thereby expofing him to public Hatred, Contempt and ^ s'8"s> Ridicule, and may be... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1785 - 164 pàgines
...the living, fome* times againft the dead 45 . HAWKINS fays, ' It feemeth, that a libel, ' in a ftrid fenfe, is taken for a malicious * defamation, expreffed...dead, or the * reputation of one who is alive, and to ex* pofe him to public hatred, contempt, or ' ridicule46.' * Sucn fcandal as is expreffed in a fcoff'... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1801 - 450 pàgines
...defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken either the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, or to expose him to public hatred, contemot, or ridicule. This offence may be punished, either by indictment... | |
 | William Peter Van Ness - 1804 - 92 pàgines
...B. 1, Ch. 73, S. 1, " A malicious defamation ex*! pressed either in printing or writing, and tending to blacken the memory « of one who is dead, or the reputation of one wiio is alive, and to expose « him to public hatred, contempt, or ridkule." * Will then the words... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pàgines
...defined to be a malicious defamation, expressed cither in prioting or writing, or by signs, pictures, Ac. tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. Libels, siys Blackstone, taken in their... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pàgines
...naStions defamation, expressed cither in printing or writing, or by signs, pictures, Jcc. tending cither to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one wbo is alive, and thereby exposing him to psblic hatred, contempt, and ridicule. Libels, says Blackstone,... | |
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