The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England

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Macmillan and Company, 1880 - 568 עמודים
 

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DIVISION OF THE LAW AS TO THE SECURITY
63
The existing statute against blasphemy
64
Attempted definition of immoral and obscene writing
70
ABUSE OF FREE SPEECH BY SEDITIOUS WORDS AND WRITINGS
73
How far a seditious libel can be defined
80
Libels on the Sovereign
86
Libels on Ministers of State
92
Remedy by ex officio information of AttorneyGeneral for sedition
99
CHAPTER VI
105
Instances of libellous comments being breaches of privilege
112
Punishment for breach of privilege
119
Fair comments on the judgments and conduct of judges
124
Publishing reports of a trial which occupies many days
129
Punishment for contempt
135
CHAPTER VIII
141
Distinction between slandering and scolding
147
Libelling classes of persons corporations and firms
153
Liability of bookseller and shopkeeper for libel
159
If the offence imputed is past and punished
165
The kind of special damage following a charge of immorality
173
Excuse of libel in giving servants character
186
Excuse of libel in protecting pecuniary interests
191
Excuse of slander and libel in judicial proceedings
197
Conflict of courts of law and Parliament ended by statute
203
Remedies for libel
207
Form of trial of indictment or information for libel
213
Unsatisfactory state of law before Foxs Act
219
Mitigation of punishment for libel
226
Remedy for slander or libel by action of damages
232
Functions of the judge in trials of actions for libel
238
Practical effect of the Copyright Acts on authors
245
Reasons why copyright does not differ from other rights
248
Chief causes of the differences between early judges as
254
Copyright in MS assignable
260
Right of property in unpublished letters
266
First publication in United Kingdom
272
Registering book under copyright Acts
278
Crown copyright in translation of Bible
284
Freedom of public meetings
290

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עמוד 158 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
עמוד 326 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
עמוד 290 - Making of any manner of new Manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters...
עמוד 38 - ... against their ruinous consequences, and exert his whole faculties in pointing out the most advantageous changes in establishments which he considers to be radically defective, or sliding from their object by abuse.
עמוד 213 - Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting, and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted, and published, books and other writings, without the consent of the authors or proprietors of such books and writings, to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families...
עמוד 227 - ... for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world.
עמוד 191 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
עמוד 79 - It is neither more nor less than this : that a man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think is not blamable...
עמוד 323 - I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
עמוד 90 - I think the fair position in which the law may be settled is this : that where the public conduct of a public man is open to animadversion and the writer who is commenting upon it makes imputations on his motives which arise fairly and legitimately out of his conduct, so that a jury shall say that the criticism was not only honest, but also well founded...

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