Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to. hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which... A Treatise on the Wrongs Called Slander and Libel: And on the Remedy by ... - Page 20by John Townshend - 1890 - 848 pagesFull view - About this book
| Questions and answers - 1925 - 996 pages
...legislature of New York adopted the definition of a criminal libel as " a malicious publication which exposes any living person, or the memory of any person deceased to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy." MR. ~Mc GOVEBN seems to forget that when protection was supposed to be afforded to the memory of a... | |
| New York (State) - Criminal law - 1865 - 652 pages
...person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person or corporation or association of persons, in their occupation or business, is a libel. This definition... | |
| Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 264 pages
...malicious publication, by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign or otherwise , which exposes any person , or the memory of any person deceased , to...hatred , contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person or Corporation or... | |
| John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 824 pages
...malicious publication, by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign, or otherwise, which exposes any person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person or corporation or... | |
| California - Civil law - 1872 - 728 pages
...to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation. NOTE.— Cool. Bl. Comm., I, p. 133; ib., III, p. 125; 2 Kent Com., p. 17; Thrall... | |
| William Blake Odgers - Forms (Law) - 1881 - 848 pages
...to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation." which .... by natural consequence causes .... damage." Illustrations. A caricature... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association. Mid-Winter Meeting - Bar associations - 1928 - 688 pages
...printing, pictures, effigy, sign, or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes, or tends to expose the memory of any person deceased to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, is a libel ; and a libel, as thus defined, shall not abate by death. SEC. 2. Whoever is found guilty... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1140 pages
...publication, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his business; and the proprietor of a newspaper In which a libel is published, though he had... | |
| New York (State). - Civil law - 1885 - 422 pages
...mere speech, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation. § 33. Slander is a false and unprivileged publication, other than libel, which... | |
| Morris March Estee - Civil procedure - 1886 - 728 pages
...to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation." Libel is both a public wrong or crime, and a private wrong or tort, cognizable... | |
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