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Libel and slander - Great Britain
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A digest of the law concerning libels: containing all the resolutions in the books on the subject, and many manuscript cases. The whole illustrated with occasional observations. There is not a more certain Mark of an ill-designing or impotent Administration, than Attempts to restrain the Liberty of Speaking or Writing. By a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Rayner, John, of the Inner Temple.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer: who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the government; and acquitted. ... To which is now added, ... the trial of Mr. William Owen, bookseller, ...
Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.Date: 1765- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox; occasioned by his late motion in the House of Commons respecting libels: and suggesting the alarming consequences likely to ensue, if the bill now before the legislature upon that subject should pass into a law. By J. Bowles, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.
Bowles, John, 1751-1819.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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Reflections on the distinction usually adopted in criminal prosecutions for libel; and on the method, lately introduced, of pronouncing verdicts in consequence of such distinction. By A. Highmore, Jun. Attorney at Law.
Highmore, A. (Anthony), Jr., 1758-1829.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A letter to John Dunning, Esq. barrister at law, on the trial of The Rev. Henry Bate, Clerk, upon the Information of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, for a libel. With an apologetic dedication to His Grace of Richmond. By a student of the Middle Temple.
Student of the Middle Temple.Date: [1780]