 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1837 - 826 pages
...contempt and ridicule. (4 HI. Com. 150.) Hawkins defines a libel, to be a malicious defamation, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive; and expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule. (Hawk. b. 1, ch. 13. 8. 1.) Chitty remarks,... | |
 | 1838 - 700 pages
...libel is a malicious defamation, made public cither by printing, writing, »igns, or fixtures, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Root \.King, 7 Cow. 6 1 3. 1*. Malice... | |
 | 1839 - 526 pages
...[Count AND.] LIBEL is a malicious defamation, expressed either in writing, or by signs, pictures, Sec., tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. (Hawk. PC) This species of... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...be " a malicious defamation, expressed either in printing, in writing, or by signs, pictures, &c., tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule." Chief Baron Comyn, in his... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 pages
...is, in a strict sense, taken for a malicious defamation, expressed either in writing or printing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. But it is said, that in a larger... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 pages
...in a strict sense, is taken for a malicious defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule ; and it may be expressed either by... | |
 | 1846 - 982 pages
...'libellus.'a little book) is a malicious defamation, expressed either in writing, or by signs, pictures, &c., tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. (Hawkins,, P. (.'.) This species... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 pages
...a little book) is a malicious defamation, expressed either in writing, or by signs, pictures, &c., tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. (Hawkins,, PC) This species... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1849 - 666 pages
...Law. He defines a libel to be (see 3d Chitty's Criminal Law, p. 867.) "A malicious defamation tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule." — Letusheieconsider, 1st, Whatisunder',... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1850 - 636 pages
...definition of libel, which is found in Chitty, is that it is a malicious defamation in writing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive. Now it is only necessary to read the words against the defendant, and to ask yourselves whether... | |
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Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule. 
