...therefore not actionable. It has long been the law that: "Neither party, witness, counsel, jury, nor judge, can be put to answer, civilly or criminally, for words spoken in office." Lord Mansfield in Reg. v. Skinner, Lofft, 55, reaffirmed in Andrews v. Gardiner, 224 NY 440, 446, 121...

...(NS) 820, 123 Am. St. Rep. 623, 12 Ann. Gas. 1022; Laing v. Mitten, 185 Mass. 233, 235, 70 NE 128. "Neither party, witness, counsel, jury, or judge,...civilly or criminally, for words spoken In office." Lord Mansfield in R. v. Skinner, Lofft, 55. The courts have refused, however, to apply the rule of...

...case: " What Mr. Lucas, the defendant's counsel, has said is very just. Neither party, counsel, nor judge, can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office." Now, in Brook \. Montayue, the court, after full argument, had expressly decided that counsel was protected,...

...Skinner (Loff t. 55), he observed: " What Mr. Lucas (counsel for the defendant) has said is very just ; neither party, witness, counsel, jury, or judge, can...spoken are opprobrious or irrelevant to the case the com t will take notice of them as a contempt, and examine on information. If anything of mala mène...

...Then Lord Mansfield, in The King v. Sky nncr (24), observes, " Neither party, witness, counsel nor judge can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office." Again, Astley v. Yoimge (25) is an authority directly in point, that no action lies upon a false affidavit...

...authorities, beyond all question, establish this : that neither party, witness, counsel, jury, nor Judge can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office ; that no action of libel or slander lies, whether against Judges, counsel, witnesses, or parties,...

...Mansfield in 1772, in Rex v. Skinner," sweepingly asserts that "Neither party, witness, counsel, jury, nor judge can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office, or for any act done or proceeding taken in the course of justice." And yet a few years later it was...

...between the privilege of counsel and that of parties and witnesses. They are phases of the same immunity. "Neither party, witness, counsel, jury or judge, can...answer, civilly or criminally, for words spoken in office."1 The courts have refused, however, to apply the rule of absolute privilege to proceedings...

...question, and not to examine whether it be true or false. In It. v. Skinner (2) Lord Mansfield, CJ, said " Neither party, witness, counsel, jury, or judge can...civilly or criminally, for words spoken in office." In Hodgson v. Scar 'left (3) it was held by Lord Ellenborough, CJ, that an action for defamation will...