 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cafes. SECT. 9. That the people (hall be fecure in their perfons. houfes, papers and pofleffions... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...opinion, to the true principles of the common law : " in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." a The punishment of a libel is a fine, or a fifte and corporal punishment. r p... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...truth thereof may be given in evidence : And, in all indiflments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, aa in other cafes." SEcT. 8. " That the people fha'lbs fecure in their per fons,ho-ifes,papers & poflefiion5,from... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1818 - 628 pages
...this matter of libel on the true footing ; namely ; " In all prosecutions and indictments for libel " the TRUTH may be given in evidence, and the " Jury...have the right to determine the law " and the facts" Thus, then, common sense has, at last, got the better ; and TRUTH can, in this State, at least, in... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1819 - 630 pages
...this matter of libel on the true footing; namely; " In all prosecutions and indictments for libel " the TRUTH may be given in evidence, and the " Jury...have the right to determine the law " and the facts" Thus, then, common sense has, at last, got the better; and TRUTH can, in this State, at least, in no... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1819 - 186 pages
...put this matter of libel on true footing ; namely, " In all prosecutions " and indictments for libel the TRUTH may be " given in evidence, and the Jury...have the " right to determine the law and the facts." Thus, then, common sense has, at last, gotten the better ; and TRUTH can, in this state, at least,... | |
 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - Connecticut - 1819 - 496 pages
...law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the 'aw and the facts, under the direction of the court. § 8. The people shall be secure... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...the truth thereof may be given in evidence: And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of tne court, as in other cases. SECT. VIII. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1820 - 490 pages
...That, in all prosecutions for libels, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury may determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. 17. That no ex-post facto law, nor law impairing the obligation of contracts, or retrospective in its... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 722 pages
...and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and... | |
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... the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 
