The purpose of this action is to recover a compensation for some damage supposed to be sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the libel. The tendency of the libel to provoke a breach of the peace, or the degree of malignity which actuates the writer,... The Law Quarterly Review - 161. lappuselaboja - 1894Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William Pyle Taunton - 1815 - 860 lapas
...the peace, or the degree of malignity which actuates the writer, has nothing to do with the question. If the matter were for the first time to be decided...maintained for the words if they had been spoken. Judgment affirmed. May 11. Recovery amended by increasing: the Bumber of 17 messuages, which had originally... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William Pyle Taunton - 1815 - 722 lapas
...the peace, or the degree of malignity which actuates the writer, has nothing to do with the question. If the matter were for the first time to be decided...could be maintained for written scandal which could nut be maintained for the words if they had been spoken. Judgment affirmed. Kay \\. Recovery amended... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1816 - 530 lapas
...matter were then first to be decided, he should have had no hesitation in saying, that no action lay for written scandal which could not be maintained for the words if they had been spoken. The court will not extend the catalogue of authorities by which that ill-received distinction is established,... | |
| Francis Ludlow Holt - 1816 - 340 lapas
...degree of malignity which actuate) the writer's mind, can have nothing to do v. it li the question. If the matter were, for the first time, to be decided at this day, 1 should have no hesitation in saying, that no action could be maintained for written scandal, which... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, John Herman Merivale - 1817 - 784 lapas
...dealings in which he was ostensibly concerned as a broker. If that fact were distinctly brought before me, I should have no hesitation in saying that no action could be maintained in respect of those transactions, inasmuch as they clearly amount to a fraud. On the other point, if... | |
| Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 lapas
...218. Sir James Mansfield, however, said in a late case, " if the matter were 10 be decided at Ibis day, I should have no hesitation in saying, that no action could be maintained for the words if they had been spoken." Thorletj v. Lord , 4 Taunt. Rep. 366. See gebiitsm v. Jcrmyn, 1... | |
| Thomas Starkie - 1830 - 688 lapas
...the peace, or the degree of malignity which actuates the writer, has nothing to do with the question. If the matter were for the first time to be decided...maintained for the words if they had been spoken." See also the opinion of the judges in the case of Macgregor v. Thwailcs, 3 B. and C. 24. VOL. i. iM... | |
| Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund Fitz Moore - 1851 - 550 lapas
...dealings in which he was ostensibly concerned as a broker. If that fact were distinctly brought before me, I should have no hesitation in saying that no action could be maintained in respect of those transactions, inasmuch as they clearly amount to a fraud.' And Lord Wynford, in... | |
| Hiram Denio - 1863 - 692 lapas
...of an action for damages merely, and says that if the question was the first time to be decided, he should have no hesitation in saying that no action...be maintained for written scandal which could not have been maintained for the same words if they had been spoken ; but he admits that the law as settled... | |
| John Shortt - 1871 - 824 lapas
...some of the greatest names known to the law Lord Hardwicke, Hale I believe, Holt, CJ, and others If the matter were for the first time to be decided...maintained for the words if they had been spoken:" (Thorlei/ v. Lord Kerry, 4 Taunt. 364.) So Best, CJ : "It is not easy to perceive why any distinction... | |
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