| William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 780 pages
...lieutenant and lord chancellor of Ireland. Lord Ellenborough, CJ in his address to the jury observed, " It " is no new doctrine that if a publication be calculated...obloquy, the " person so conducting himself is exposed to the inflictions of " the law. It is a crime ; it has ever been considered as a crime, " whether wrapt... | |
| Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 658 pages
...the Weekly Register* entitled "Juvcrna." L<l. Ellenborough, CJ in summing up to the jury, observed, " It is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated...obloquy, the person, so conducting himself, is exposed to the inflictions of the lair. It is a crime ; it has ever been considered as a crime, whether wrapt... | |
| 1829 - 538 pages
...his ministers." And Lord Ellenborough laid down the position in the case of the King vs. Cobtiett. " It is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated...people, by bringing the government into disesteem," (almost the words of the Sedition Law) " whether the expedient be by ridicule or obloquy, the person... | |
| Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1830 - 474 pages
...license necessary. But if a man publish a paper he is exposed to penal consequences, as he is in doing every other act, if it tend to the prejudice of any...obloquy, the person so conducting himself is exposed to the inflictions of the law. It is a crime. It has ever been consi^ dered as a crime whether wrapt in... | |
| Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 598 pages
...Ellenborough in Rex v. Cobbctt (Holt on Libel, 1 1 4; Stark, on Libel, 529), said, that if a publicati in t'i alienate the affections of the people, by bringing...the government into disesteem, whether the expedient resorted to ridicule or obloquy, the writer, publisher, kc. are punishable; and \vhiMhcr the defendant... | |
| Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1836 - 1178 pages
...lieutenant and lord chancellor of Ireland. Ld. EUenborough CJ, in his address to the jury, observed, " It is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated to alienate Expressing one or two letters only of a name. Whether true or false is not material in criminal proceedings.... | |
| Edmund Hayes - Criminal law - 1837 - 758 pages
...advice, or in war, — asserting falsely that the king labours under mental derangement, — attempting to alienate the affections of the people by bringing the government into disesteem, or the like. 4 £l. Com. 119; 3 D. & Ry. 464. The common law punishment of all misdemeanors, is fine... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 342 pages
...in England. § 2.— 1. Rule concerning Disesteem. 1 Proof of the Rule — Ch. Justice, p. 854 — " It is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated...affections of the people, by bringing the government into duesteem, whether the expedient be ridicule or obloquy, the person so conducting himself is exposed... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...Lord Ellenborough, in the case of Rex v. Cobbett, on the 24th May, 1 804, expressly said that it was " no new doctrine that if a publication be calculated...bringing the government into disesteem, whether the expressions be ridicule or obloquy, the person so conducting himself is exposed to the infliction of... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 624 pages
...other—forexample, from a parliament composed as at present ? If yes, and if, to any person so occupied, it " It is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated...affections of the people, by bringing the government into daesteem, whether the expedient be ridicule or obloquy, the person so conducting himself is exposed... | |
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