 ... that the person proposing the scheme is doing it from a base and sordid motive, and is putting forth a list of fictitious subscribers, in order to delude others to subscribe, it cannot be said to be within the limits of fair criticism. If comment...  The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 - Page 203by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1863 - 620 pages
...to words privileged no action can be maintained, for the interests and exigencies of society demand that there should be free communication between parties who have a duty, either moral or legal, to perform towards each other, as in the common cas« of master and servant, in which defamatory words... | |
 | Benjamin Russell - 1885 - 608 pages
...libel in either case ; Campbell \. Spottiswood, 3 B. & S., 769; Parmeter v. Copeland, 6 M. & W., 105. If comment is beyond the limits of fair criticism it becomes a libel; Campbell v. Sjiottiswood, already cited. A charge may be libellous notwithstanding all the facts on... | |
 | Canada - 1908 - 948 pages
...in order to delude others to subscribe, it cannot be said to be within the limits of fair criticism. If comment is beyond the limits of fair criticism it becomes a libel. And 1 agree that the question in this case is, libel or no libel. If the words were used upon a justifiable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1076 pages
...motives to such editor, although such imputation is fairly and honestly believed to be well founded. "If comment is beyond the limits of fair criticism, it becomes a libel." Campbell v. Spottiswoode (1863) 3 Best & S. 769. So, a literary critic cannot, under the pretext of... | |
 | Francis Hermann Bohlen - Torts - 1915 - 858 pages
...in order to delude others to subscribe, it cannot be said to be within the limits of fair criticism. If comment is beyond the limits of fair criticism...occasion, no action could be maintained ; for the interest and exigencies of society require that there should be free communication between parties... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 916 pages
...to words privileged no action can be maintained, for the interests and exigencies of society demand that there should be free communication between parties who have a duty, CB] HOI-KINS AND ANOTHEI: v. HITCHCOCK. B. either moral or legal, to perform towards each other, as... | |
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