 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1844 - 562 sider
...abatement, or demur, or plead guilty, or not guilty ; or that the statements in the libel were true, and that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published. The statute 7 Geo. 4. c. 64. s. 19. has gone far to abolish pleas in abatement in criminal cases. By that... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 sider
...libel, the defendant may, by way of defence, allege the truth of the matters charged, and farther, that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published, showing the páfticular fact or facts by reason whereof it wag for the public benefit, and that if... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1852 - 750 sider
...any indictment for a defamatory libel, may now plead the truth of the libel, if he state in his plea that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published, and show the particular fact or facts by reason of which the publication was for the public benefit.... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1853 - 1006 sider
...any indictment for a defamatory libel, may now plead the truth of the libel, if he state in his plea that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published, and show the particular fact or facts by reason of which the publication was for the (а) A v. Burdett,... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1853 - 900 sider
...matters charged in the alleged libel may be inquired into, but shall not amount to a defence unless it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published. J The object of the convention of Rcichenbach, concluded in July 1790, by the ambassadors of England,... | |
 | David Rowland - 1859 - 606 sider
...libel, the truth of the matters charged may be inquired into, but shall not amount to a defence, unless it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published ; and to entitle the defendant to give evidence of their truth as a defence, the defendant must, in... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 778 sider
...the defendant, in pleading to the indictment or information, to allege the truth of tho said matters, and also that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published, — to which plea the prosecutor may reply generally ; and if after such plea the defendant is convicted,... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 sider
...in addition to the plea of not guilty, to plead the truth of the libel, together with an allegation that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published and specific facts to show how it was so. And, on conviction, the court in pronouncing sentence may... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1846 - 734 sider
...mentioned, the truth of the matters charged may be inquired into, but shall not amount to a defence unless it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be public ; and that to entitle the defendant to give evidence of the truth of the matters charged as... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 sider
...the defendant in pleading to the indictment or information to allege the truth of the said matters; and also that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published; to which plea the prosecutor may reply generally ; and if after such plea the defendant shall be convicted,... | |
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One accused of publishing a defamatory libel may plead that the defamatory matter published by him was true, and that it was for the public benefit that the matters charged should be published in the manner and at the time when they were published. 
