 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1244 pages
...chancery pleader from Lincoln's Inn." He was prosecuted for libel, and Lord Ellenborough told the Jury that "if a publication be calculated to alienate the...conducting himself Is exposed to the inflictions of the taw. It is a crime." Rex v. Cobbett, 29 St. Tr. 54. In 17SG the Morning Herald charged Pitt, the Prime... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Libel and slander - 1905 - 1020 pages
...expressly following this decision, told the jury in 7t'. v. Cobbett, (1804) 29 Howell's St. Tr. 49 : — " It is no new doctrine that if a publication be calculated...disesteem, whether the expedient be by ridicule or obloquy, ... it is a crime." If this is to be taken literally, all Opposition newspapers commit such crime every... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...the lord-lieutenant and lord-chancellor of Ireland, lord Sllenborough, CJ, observed, " It is no nsvv doctrine that if a publication be calculated to alienate...himself is exposed to the inflictions of the law." See also Holt, Hep. 424. 14 How. St. Tr. 1095, SC By the 60 Geo. III. c. 8, the offence of publishing... | |
 | Francis Hermann Bohlen - Torts - 1915 - 858 pages
...Ellenborough charged the jury, p. 49, that, "If a publication be caleulated to alienate the affections nf the people, by bringing the government into disesteem,...whether the expedient be by ridicule or obloquy." it was a criminal libel. 1Accord: Dunneback v. Tribune Co., 108 Mich. 75 (1895), inference, from fact... | |
 | Walter Russell Donogh - Press law - 1917 - 324 pages
...possessing the people with an ill opinion of the Government, no Government can exist." — LORD HOLT. " If a publication be calculated to alienate the affections...himself is exposed to the inflictions of the law." — LORD ELLBNBOROUGH. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. SINCE the last edition of this book appeared,... | |
 | Canada, W. J. Tremeear - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1919 - 1586 pages
...Government can be safe unless it be punished." And Lord Ellenborough, in B. v. Cobbett, 29 St. Tr. 49, said that if a publication be calculated to -alienate the affections of the people, bj' bringing the Government into disesteem, whether the expedient resorted to be ridicule or obloquy,... | |
 | Sidney Webb - Cooperation - 1923 - 732 pages
...impunity to any person publishing anything that is .... prejudicial to the general interests of the State It is no new doctrine that if a publication be calculated...the people by bringing the government into disesteem .... the person so conducting himself is exposed to the infliction of the law. It is a crime." (*)... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland - Citizenship - 1927 - 528 pages
...person against whom it was made.15 Lord Ellensborough in Rex v. Cobbett said that if a publication was calculated to alienate the affections of the people by bringing the government into disrepute whether the expedient resorted to was ridicule or obloquy, the writer and publisher were... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1935 - 136 pages
...Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough, asserted that : " It is no new doctrine that if a publication he calculated to alienate the affections of the people,...disesteem, whether the expedient be by ridicule or obloquy * * * it is a crime." Yet in these days at least half the morning and evening journals in England,... | |
 | Puerto Rico - 1900 - 360 pages
...well-established principle of American law that if a publication be calculated to alienate the affection of the people by bringing the Government into disesteem, whether the expedient resorted to be ridicule or obloquy, the writer and publisher are punishable; and whether the defendant... | |
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It is no new doctrine that if a publication be calculated to alienate the affections of the people, by bringing the government into disesteem, whether the expedient be by ridicule or obloquy, the person so conducting himself is exposed to the inflictions... 
