 | William Peter Van Ness - 1804 - 92 σελίδες
...If it be against a magistrate or other public person, it is a greater offence •« for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of go'«• Ternraent." It is, says Hawkins, B. 1, Ch. 73, S. 1, " A malicious defamation ex*! pressed... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1822 - 670 σελίδες
...inconvenience. If it be against a Magistrate, or other public person it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government." The libels in question clearly concern a breach of the peace, and are a scandal on the government of... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 σελίδες
...inconvenience. If it be against a magistrate or other public person, it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government. — Although the private man or magistrate be dead, at the time of the making of the libel, yet it... | |
 | Sir James Scarlett, Peter Campbell Scarlett - 1877 - 460 σελίδες
...inconvenience. If it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence, for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked Ministers to be... | |
 | James Paterson - 1880 - 656 σελίδες
...the libel be against a magistrate or other public person, it was a greater offence, for it concerned not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of the government. And though the private man or magistrate be dead at the time of the making of the libel,... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1888 - 752 σελίδες
...: If it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater oifeuce ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government ; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to... | |
 | 1903 - 828 σελίδες
...inconvenience; if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence ; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to be... | |
 | Ernst Freund - 1904 - 934 σελίδες
...says: "If it be against a magistrate or other public person it is a greater offense, for it concerns not only the breach of the peace but also the scandal of the government."3 Libel of the government is at common law designated as seditious libel, and a similar... | |
 | 1928 - 508 σελίδες
...inconvenience : if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of government; for what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to be... | |
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... if it be against a magistrate, or other public person, it is a greater offence; for it concerns not only the breach of the peace, but also the scandal of Government... 
