 A libel is the malicious defamation of a person, made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to deprive him of the benefits of...  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Page 156by Simon Greenleaf - 1853Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1952 - 1030 pages
...has found favor in twelve jurisdictions. "A libel is a malicious defamation of a person, made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation...aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one who is dead, and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." Iowa Code Ann,... | |
 | France - 1817 - 376 pages
...and specially a magistrats , made public by either printing , writing , sings or pictures , in order to provoke him to wrath , or expose him to public hatred , contempt , and ridicule. Comment, on thé lav/s ofEnglaud^ book. iv, cluip. n, $ i3 , pag. i5o. (a) Voyez Starkie... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 648 pages
...and especially a magistrate, made public by cither printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. The direct tendency of these libels is the breach of the public peace, by stirring up... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Edward Hall Alderson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 818 pages
...magistrate ~ made public, by either printing, writing, signs, or pic- against BURBHT. tures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. The direct tendency of these libels, is the breach of the public peace, by stirring up... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 644 pages
...and especially a magistrate, made public by either printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. The direct tendency of these libels is the breach of tin- public peace, by stirring up... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1821 - 342 pages
...and especially a magistrate, made public hy either printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule." He tells us that " the communication of a libel to any one person, is a publication... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1822 - 458 pages
...malicious defamation of any person, made public by either printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke* him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. In considering what writings are libellous, it may be necessary to premise that wherever an action... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1822 - 670 pages
...public, by cither printing, writing, signs, or (a) Vol. iv. c. 11. s. 13. page 150. pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. The direct tendency BUTT of these libels is a breach of the public peace, by stirring... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...and especially a magistrate, made public by either printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. The direct tendency of these libels is the breach of the public peace, by stirring up... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...and especially a magistrate, made public by either printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule ". The direct tendency of these libels is the breach of the public peace, by stirring... | |
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