 | Freedom of the press - 1825 - 546 pages
...followed him, that a libel is not a breach of the peace ; it tends to the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost. But that which only tends to the breach of the peace cannot be a breach of it. The same Noble Lord has expressed, that whatever is Law will he found in our Books; if it is not to... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...breach of I IIP peace. It tends to the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost. — 1 Lev. 139. But that which only tends to the breach of the peace, cannot be a breach of it. Suppose a libel to be a breach of the peace, yet I think it cannot exclude privilege ; became, I cannot... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 pages
...a breach of the peace, it tends to the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost. — 1 Lev. 189. But that which only tends to the breach of the peace, cannot be a breach of it. Suppose a libel to be a breach of the peace, yet I think it cannot exclude privilege ; because, I cannot... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Niel Gow - Commercial law - 1828 - 266 pages
...breach of the peace, but that is the B ^ TT utmost. But that which only tends to the breach CONANT. of the peace, cannot be a breach of it." This, therefore,...and privilege of apprehending for a libel, and of commitling for want of bail. The origin of the power thus exercised by a secretary of state is, in... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...all of opinion that a libel is not a breach of the peace. It tends to the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost, . . . But that which only tends...the breach of the peace cannot be a breach of it. Suppose a libel be a breach of the peace, yet I think it cannot exclude privilege; because I cannot... | |
 | Joshua A. Chafetz - Political Science - 2007 - 319 pages
...seditious libel because "a libel is not a breach of the peace. It tends to the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost. . . . But that which only tends to the breach of the peace cannot be a breach of it."158 (The Wilkes case will be discussed in much greater detail in chapter 7.) This decision, however,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1817 - 822 pages
...How-ell's State Trials, vol. 19, p. 990. the breach of the peace, and that is the utmost— 1 Lev. 139. But that which only tends to the breach of the peace cannot be a breach of it. Suppose a libel to be a breach of the peace, yet I think it cannot exclude privilege ; because I cannot... | |
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I cannot find that a libeller is bound to find surety of the peace, in any book whatever, nor ever was, in any case, except one, viz. the case of the Seven Bishops, where three judges said, that surety... 