 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...to any j one perfon is a publication in the eye of the law f ; and therefore the fending an abufive private letter to a man is as much a libel as if it...printed, for it equally tends to a breach of the peace'. For the fame reafon it is immaterial with refpeft to the effence of a libel, whether the matter of... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...libel to any one perfon is a publication in the eye of the law : and therefore the fending an abufive private letter to a man is as much a libel as if it were openly f rinted, ft r it equally tends to a breach of the peace. With regard to libels in general, there are,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...libel to any one perfon is a publication in the eye of the lawf : and therefore the fending an abttfive private letter to a man 'is as much a libel as if it were openIy printed, for it equally rends to ''a breach of the peace*. For the fame reafon it is immaterial... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...libel to any one person, is a publication in the eye of the law ; therefore the sending an abusive private letter to a man, is as much a libel as if...printed ; for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. In the making of libels, if one man dictates, and another writes a libel, both are guilty ; for the... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...libel to any one person, is a publication in the eye of the law. And therefore the sending an abusive private letter to a man, is as much a libel as if...printed. For it equally tends to a breach of the peace. The punishment of such libellers, for either making, Repeating, printing, or publishing tl»e libel,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...publication in the eye of the law : and therefore ttie fending an abufive private letter to z man is^-s much a libel as if it were openly printed, for it...breach of the peace. With regard to libels in general, theie are two remcdi:s ;' one by indictment, and another by action. The former for the public offence;... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...is a publication in the eye of the law ; therefore the sending an abusive private letter to a man ii as much a libel as if it were openly printed ; for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. In the makingof libels, if one man dictates, and another writes a libel, both are guilty: for the writing... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...publication in the eye of the law : therefore the son clins an abusive private letter to a man, is ля much a libel as if it were openly printed; for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. In the makinsr of libels, if one man dictates, and another writes a libel, both are guiltv ; for the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Edward Hall Alderson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 820 pages
...libel to any one person, is a publication in the eye of the law; and, therefore, the sending an abusive private letter to a man, is as much a libel as if...printed, for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. And in the same page, he says, " In a criminal prosecution, the tendency which all libels have to create... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...a libel to any one person is a publication in the eye of the law; therefore the sending an abusive private letter to a man is as much a libel as if it...printed; for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. Though a private person or magistrate be dead at the time of making the libel, yet it is punishable,... | |
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... private letter to a man is as much a libel as if it were openly printed, for it equally tends to a breach of the peace. 
