...itn/iused on me by the act far tufifiresiing duelling: So help me God. 8. And be it further enacted, That all words which from their usual construction, and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and lead to violence and breach of the peace shall hereafter be actionable,...

...the time of passing the act of January 26, 1810, to suppress duelling, it was provided as follows: That all words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and lead to violence and breach of the peace, shall hereafter be actionable,...

...some of the United States, the English law has been modified by special provisions. Thus, in Virginia, all words " which, from their usual construction and...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace," and, in Indiania, charging by words a female with any breach of chastity, are made actionable (Kent's...

...slander, if the plaintiff proceeds under the statute, he must in his declaration aver that the words from their usual construction and common acceptation...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, or else employ some other equivalent averment to denote that the words are actionable under the statute....

...immunity of a witness in a judicial proceeding is not affected by § 1004 of the Mississippi Code, which provides that "all words which from their usual construction and common acceptation are considered as insults, and lead to violence and breaches of the peace, shall hereafter be actionable."...

...and has words in it treating the words used as actionable under section 2, c. 103, Code, 1906, saying that "all words which from their usual construction...shall be actionable. No demurrer shall preclude a íury from passing thereon." If I understand the point made against the declaration, it is that it...

...witness in a judicial proceeding from liability to an action for slander is not affected by a statute which provides that "all words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and lead to violence and breaches of the peace, shall hereafter be actionable;...

...must appear. Under § 2 of chapter 103 a civil remedy is provided where words are used toward another which, from their usual construction and common acceptation,...insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace. It is true that the peace need not be actually broken; but there must be some act tending to the breach,...

...r'spoken by *tha defendtnts *.. . were words which from their usual.construe*' tion and common. acceptance are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of . the peace..,.." ' Metcalf was accused of telling. an investigator for Retail IJredit Co. of the Charges and saying...

...spoken "tiy *$» defendants ... . were words which from their usual .construction and common acceptance are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace.,. ,'J < James J. Baker of the 500 of. Birmingham -Avenue Court against the company, John Young, identified...