 No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous...  The Institutes of Justinian - Page 639by Member of the New York Bar - 1852 - 710 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1874 - 336 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 134 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...Connecticut : No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court.... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 616 pages
...of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous was true, and was published... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1874 - 544 pages
...laws shall he passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelons be trne, and was published... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right; and in all civil or criminal actions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear that the alleged libellous matter was published for justifiable ends, the accused party shall be acquitted.... | |
 | Nebraska - Law - 1875 - 434 pages
...laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous be true, and was published... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Constitutional law - 1877 - 1054 pages
...contempt shall be limited by legislative acts. SEC. 1 8. There shall be no imprisonment for debt. SEC. 19. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts. SEC. 20. Private ways may be... | |
 | Georgia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1877 - 712 pages
...infringed, but the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne. 25. In all prosecutions, or indictments, for libel, the truth may be given in as evidence, and the jury in that, and in all criminal cases, shall be the judges of the law and the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right; and in all civil or criminal actions .lor libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear that the alleged libellous matter wae published for justifiable ends, the accused party shall be acquitted.... | |
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