 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
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...person, and especially a magistrate, made public by printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule, are of a nature very similar to challenges. The communication of a libel to any one person... | |
 | Maine - Law - 1841 - 922 pages
...SECTION 1. A libel shall be construed to be the malicious defamation of a person, made public by either 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. SECT. 2. Every... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Griffiths - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1841 - 226 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. Crime. Libel. Punishment. Fine, imprisonment, or both. Archbold. Crimes. Smuggling, or making signals... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 512 pages
...libel shall be construed to be the malicious defamation of a person, made public by either any priming, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy,...aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one who is dead, and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." Perjury, also,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Criminal law - 1844 - 294 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... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 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. Consult the recent Statute amending the law respecting defamatory words and libels, 6... | |
 | Attorneys general's opinions - 1851 - 1232 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. — 4 Bl. Com. 150. According to this definition, it is manifest that each of those letters... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1852 - 788 pages
...ambassador commit an offence in our country, it belorgs to the ing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule, is a libel. Ibid. President, not to an individual citizen, to take notice of it. Ibid.... | |
 | Attorneys general's opinions - 1852 - 224 pages
...defamation of any person, and especially a magistrate, by printing, writing, signs, or pictures, in order to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule, is a libel 40 If a foreign ambassador commit an offence in our country, it belongs to... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...Sts. of Wisconsin, p. 712, sec, 6. IOWA. A libel is the 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. Every person... | |
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