 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...invcftigating the official conduä of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the nmter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indi£lments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the... | |
 | Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1799 - 606 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may...evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the facis under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...lions for publications, inveftigating the proceedings of officers, or where the matter publi(hed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And in all indiciments for libels the jury may determine the facli and the law, as in other cafes. SECT. 6. The... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may...jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other cases. SEcT. 9. That the people shall be secure... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...footing, consonant, or nearly consonant in my opinion, to the true principles of the common law : " in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." a The punishment of a libel is a fine,... | |
 | Samuel Chase - Impeachments - 1805 - 88 pages
...defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel ; and the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cafes/' as in and by the faid act, commonly called the /edition law, to/which this refpondent... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, ,<r where the matter publiflied is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And, in all indiflments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...inveftigtting the official conducl of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence i And, in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have a right to determine '.he law and the facts,... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments... 
