 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...thousands, and tens of thou* sands. A libel is defined by the law, to be the malicious defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken either the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, or to expose... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...Commonwealth, 2 Binn- 514. *libcls upon individuals, they have been defined to be malicious defamations, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs...pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence (Law) - 1824 - 838 pages
...true or false, expressed either in printing nr writing, or by »igns »nil pictures, and with intent to blacken the memory of one dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to publie batred, contempt, and ridicule Commonwealth v. Clap, 4 Mas».... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 788 pages
...libels. (/) With respect to libels upon individuals, they have been defined to be malicious defamations, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs...pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, toutempt,... | |
 | Samuel Raynes - Criminal procedure - 1826 - 268 pages
...affected by the defamatory document. Libels on individuals have been defined to be malicious defamations, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs...pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt,... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...libel, as applicable to individuals, has been well defined 6 to be a miilii inn millilii ul'mnnTp" n il either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures,...expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. A malicious intent towards government, magistrates, or individuals, and" an injurious or" offensive"fen3ency7must"cohcu... | |
 | John Winslow Whitman - Trials (Libel) - 1828 - 78 pages
...circumstances may enhance or mitigate that implied guilt, and vary the degrees of it." " A libel was a malicious publication, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one dead or the reputation of one alive and expose... | |
 | John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 314 pages
...law of libel. A libel is a false and malicious publication in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures tending either to blacken the memory of one dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expose them to hatred, contempt, or ridicule. That this is the tendency of the... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 618 pages
...late chief justice Parsons, in the case of Commonwealth v. Clapp, 4 Mass. Rep. 168. " It is," says he, "a malicious publication, expressed either in printing...pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of the dead, or the reputation of one who is alive and expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule."... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...able if spoken. (§ 256.) A libel is defined to be a malicious publication in printing or writing, signs or pictures, tending either to blacken the memory...expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. And the law considers it a public as well as a private injury, and makes the offender both liable to... | |
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A libel is a malicious publication expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. 
