 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 760 pages
...tantamount to a scandalous publication : and in a private action for slander of a common person, if J. b. publish that he hath heard JN say, that JG was a traitor <ir thief; in an action of the case, if the truth be such, he may justify. But if JS pnl'liili that... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1813 - 710 pages
...tantamount to a scandalous publication. • * T al -i •: . > iS ,"i " And, in a private action forslander of a common person, if JS publish that he hath heard...or thief, in an action on the case, if the truth be so, he" may justify ; but ifJ. S. publish that he hath heard generally, without a certain author, that... | |
 | Sir Thomas Ireland, Sir Edward Coke - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 460 pages
...did you not hear that C. is guilty of treason," <t is tantamount to a scandalous publication : and in an action for slander of a common person, if JS...he hath heard JN say that JG was a traitor or thief ; if the truth be so, he may justify. But if J. S publish that he hath heard generally, without a certain... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 760 pages
...scandalous publication : and in u private action for slander of a common person, if .1. S. publish that be hath heard JN say, that JG was a traitor or thief; in an action of the case, if the iruth be such, he may justify. But if JS publish that he hath heard generally »ithout... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 758 pages
...treason," &c. this is tantamount to a scandalous pubU -- lion : and in a private action fur slander oí a common person, if JS publish that he hath heard JN say, (lint JG »a* a trailer cr thief; in an action of the case, if the truth le such, he may justify. But... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Edward Hall Alderson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 754 pages
...action for slander pf a common person, if /. £ publish that he hath heard ./. \V. say that ,/. G. was a traitor or thief, in an action on the case, if the truth be such, he may justify." It is observable, that Lord Coke does not say that it is lawful to repeat slander in all cases and... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Dowling, Archer Ryland - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 888 pages
...M'GnEG0R v. THWAITEs. Lord Northampton's case. What is there said is this : " If 1, S. publish that he had heard JN say, that JG was a traitor or thief, in an action on the case, if the truth be so, he may justify. But if IS publish that he hath heard generally, without a certain author, that... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...12 Rep. 134., it is said to have been resolved that if IS publish that he hath heard IN say that IG was a traitor or thief; in an action on the case, if the truth be such (ie that he did hear IN say so), he may justify. This resolution was recently brought under the consideration... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 974 pages
...within it. The rule there stated is this : " If /. S. publish that he hath heard , /. N. say that /. G. was a traitor or thief, in an action on the case, if the truth be so, he may justify. But if JS publish that he hath heard generally, without a certain author, that... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 658 pages
...that C. was guilty of treason?' " This is tantamount to a scandalous publication. " And, in a private action for slander of a common, person, if JS publish...or thief, in an action on the case, if the truth be so, he may justify ; but if JS publish that he hath heard generally, without a certain author, that... | |
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In a private action for slander of a common person, if JS publish that he hath heard JN say, that JG was a traitor or thief ; in an action of the case, if the truth be such, he may justify. 
