| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...invcftigating the official conduä of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the nmter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indi£lments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the... | |
| Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1799 - 606 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof...evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the facis under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
| Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, ,<r where the matter publiflied is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And, in all indiflments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the... | |
| 1805 - 596 pages
...inveftigtting the official conducl of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence i And, in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have a right to determine '.he law and the facts,... | |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or, where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence." There is in this sentence, after the diversative conjunction or, what the grammarians call an ellipsis,... | |
| Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments fot libels, the jurv shall h:ive the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction... | |
| Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof...evidence: And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of tne court, as in other... | |
| 1821 - 454 pages
...the people, or where the. jniiter ; •• • : .l.shrd is proper for public inlbrmation, the truui thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
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