 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...printed, for it equally tends to a breach of the реасе.(м) For the same reason, it is immaterial, with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false,(i>) since the provocation, and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished criminally; though,... | |
 | John Sharp Williams - 1913 - 358 pages
...plaintiff was a United States official? Turn to your Blackstone and read as follows: "It is immaterial, with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false, since the provocation (to a breach of the peace) and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished criminally."... | |
 | John Sharp Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 366 pages
...plaintiff was a United States official? Turn to your Blackstone and read as follows: "It is immaterial, with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or fake, since the provocation (to a breach of the peace) and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...printed, for it equally tends to a breaeh of the peace.' For the same reason it is immaterial with respeet to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false ; u since the provoeation, and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished eriminally : though, doubtless,... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Blasphemy - 1919 - 468 pages
...public peace, is the sole consideration of the law; and that it is, therefore, perfectly immaterial, with respect to the essence of a Libel, whether the matter of it be true or false — since the provocation, and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished criminally. • • •... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Blasphemy - 1919 - 464 pages
...public peace, is the sole consideration of the law; and that it is, therefore, perfectly immaterial, with respect to the essence of a Libel, whether the matter of it be true or false—since the provocation, and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished criminally. » •... | |
 | Joshua Montefiore - Commerce - 2004 - 1532 pages
...the relations and descendants of the deceased. 4 TR 126. The sale of a libel by a servant in a shop is prima facie evidence of publication in a prosecution...contrary evidence, shewing that he was not privy, or in any degree assenting to it. Ibid, and 5 Burr. 2686. When a person is brought to receive judgment... | |
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For the same reason, it is immaterial, with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false; since the provocation, and not the falsity, is the thing to be punished criminally; though, doubtless, the falsehood of it may aggravate... 
