 | William Peter Van Ness - Freedom of the press - 1804 - 92 pages
...If it be against a magistrate or other public person, it is a greater offence •« for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of go'«• Ternraent." It is, says Hawkins, B. 1, Ch. 73, S. 1, " A malicious defamation ex*! pressed... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1822 - 670 pages
...inconvenience. If it be against a Magistrate, or other public person it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government." The libels in question clearly concern a breach of the peace, and are a scandal on the government of... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...inconvenience. If it be against a magistrate or other public person, it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government. — Although the private man or magistrate be dead, at the time of the making of the libel, yet it... | |
 | Sir James Scarlett, Peter Campbell Scarlett - Great Britain - 1877 - 460 pages
...inconvenience. If it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence, for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked Ministers to be... | |
 | James Paterson - Freedom of religion - 1880 - 656 pages
...the libel be against a magistrate or other public person, it was a greater offence, for it concerned not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of the government. And though the private man or magistrate be dead at the time of the making of the libel,... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1888 - 752 pages
...: If it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater oifeuce ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government ; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 828 pages
...inconvenience; if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to be... | |
 | Ernst Freund - Police power - 1904 - 934 pages
...says: "If it be against a magistrate or other public person it is a greater offense, for it concerns not only the breach of the peace but also the scandal of the government."3 Libel of the government is at common law designated as seditious libel, and a similar... | |
 | Law - 1928 - 508 pages
...inconvenience : if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to be... | |
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... if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of Government... 
