 | Law - 1914 - 1398 pages
...Bradstreet Co., 41 SE 763, 764, 63 S. a 625, 630). "Libel," in the criminal law, is "a malicious defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, with Intent to provoke the living; or the reputation of one... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1320 pages
...S. K¿ 931. Allen, J., delivered the opinion of 'the court : A libel, as applicable to individuals, is a malicious publication expressed either in printing...memory of one dead, or the reputation of one alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. It is any written slander, though merely tending... | |
 | Louisiana, Robert Hardin Marr - Law - 1915 - 960 pages
...imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. Libel in the criminal law is a malicious defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, with intent to provoke the living; or the reputation of one... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1917 - 1012 pages
...defined a libel to be " a malicious publication, expressed either in printing or writing, 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 and ridicule." He then pointed out some of... | |
 | 1927 - 1640 pages
...malicious publication, expressed either in printing or (134 sc las, ist s. E. sei.) 561 writin of 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." Words which are not libelous... | |
 | Francis Bowes Sayre - Criminal law - 1927 - 1192 pages
...evidence the judge rejected, and for that reason the defendant moves for a new trial. . . . 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,... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, James Thomson, Alexander James (Reporter), Fitzgerald Cochran, Henry Oldright (Reporter), John Morris Geldert (Reporter), James Macdonald Oxley (Reporter), Benjamin Russell, Samuel Ainsley Chesley, Frank W. Russell (Reporter), William Bernard Wallace, LaMert S. Whinyard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 498 pages
...defined to be a malicious publication expressed in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory of one dead or the reputation...expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, 2 Kents' Com. 17." .Now it is clear from modern decisions that Courts are not now to read the words... | |
 | Clark Bell - Medical jurisprudence - 1893 - 544 pages
...the injury of others, with impunity." King v. Root, 4 Wend., 113. LIBEL. A libel may be defined as "a malicious publication, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, tending to blacken the memory of the dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and... | |
 | Law - 1926 - 1024 pages
...defined by Parsons, CJ, in Commonwealth v. Clap, 4 Mass. 163, at page 168 (3 Am. Dec. 212) : "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 ie alive,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1642 pages
...malicious publication, expressed either in printing or Llbel-dennltlon. writ¡n?> £. by s¡gns 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." Words which are not libelous... | |
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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. 
