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Circular letter from Sydney Holland, Chairman RDS, re. action taken for libel and slander against S. Paget, Hon. Sec.
Date: c.1911Reference: SA/RDS/G/1/20Part of: Research Defence Society- Pictures
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A libel about the colonel of a garrison is invented by a junior soldier and works its way round to the colonel himself. Colour process print after N. Pocock, 191-.
Pocock, Noel.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2059559iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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Debates in both Houses of Parliament on the bill introduced by the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox, for removing doubts respecting the functions of juries in cases of libel: with the Questions Addressed by the House of Lords to the Judges thereon, and their Answers. To which is subjoined, the statute.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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An explanation of the vices of the age: shewing the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of petty-lawyers. The cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the intrigues of lewd women.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The right way to shake off a viper. An essay, upon a case too commonly calling for consideration; what shall good men do, when they are evil spoken of? With a preface of Dr. Increase Mather,
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1720- Books
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State law: or, the Doctrine of Libels, Discussed and Examined. Shewing, I. Every species of defamatory-writing, what shall be deemed and taken for such; and how far the same are Punishable by the Laws of the Land. II. The Sense of both Civil and Canon Lawyers in this Points with great Variety of Precedents, and Adjudged Cases. Faithfully cited from all our Reports. III. Particular Instances of Printed Libels; with the Proceedings against, 1. H. Carr, for writing The Weekly Packet of Advices from Rome, 31 Car. II. 2. Of S. Johnson and R. Baxter for Libelling King James II. 3. Of Hurt, for printing The Flying Post, 12 Anne. 4. Of Curll, for printing Ker of Kersland's Memoirs, &c. 10 Geo. ... With two remarkable cases: 1. Temp. Hen. 70. of Several Persons executed for a Libel against his Ministry, which was deemed High-Treason. 2. The Case of Sir William Williams, (speaker of the House of Commons) fined 10000l. for a Libel. Also, the opinions of Lord Chief Justice Hale, Holt, and Parker, concerning state-libels.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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A treatise against detraction, in ten sections. By the Reverend Mr. Andrew Le Mercier, Pastor of the French church at Boston in New-England.
Le Mercier, Andrew, 1692-1763.Date: 1733- Books
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A Dialogue between a country farmer and a juryman, on the subject of libels.
Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Another letter to Mr. Almon, in matter of libel.
Date: 1770- Books
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Another letter to Mr. Almon, in matter of libel.
Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Considerations on the matter of libel. Suggested by Mr. Fox's notice in Parliament, of an intended motion on that subject.
Leach, Thomas, 1746-1818.Date: [1791]- Books
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Another letter to Mr. Almon, in matter of libel: with a postscript upon Contempt of Court and Attachment.
Date: 1771- 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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A summary of the law of libel: in four letters, signed Phileleutherus Anglicanus, Addressed to, and printed in, The Public Advertiser, By H. S. Woodfall.
Phileleutherus, Anglicanus.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Discussions of the law of libels as at present received, in which its authenticity is examined; with incidental observations on the legal effect of precedent and authority.
Adair, James, 1743?-1798.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A dialogue between a country farmer and a juryman, on the subject of libels. The liberty of the press, and the rights of jurymen, are the bulwark of the English constitution.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXX. [1770]- 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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An essay on the law of libels. With an appendix, containing authorities. To which are subjoined, remarks on the case in Ireland of attachment; and the letter of the Hon. T. Erskine, Esq. on that subject.
Lofft, Capel, 1751-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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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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A caution against speaking evil of our governors and of one another. As it was delivered in a sermon preached at St. Paul's cathedral, on Sunday the 7th of this instant October, in the afternoon. By David Scurlock, M. A. Vicar of Pottern, Wilts.
Scurlock, David.Date: [1733]- Books
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A report of an action for a libel, brought by Dr. Benjamin Rush, against William Cobbett, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, December term, 1799, for certain defamatory publications in a news-paper, entitled Porcupine's gazette, of which the said William Cobbett was editor. (Taken in shorthand by T. Carpenter.)
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: 1800- Books
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The folly and guilt of satyrical slander. A sermon preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ-Church, on Sunday, February 20. 1763. By John Tottie, ...
Tottie, John, 1711?-1774.Date: [1763]- Books
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The baseness and perniciousness of the sin of slandering and backbiting By Josiah Woodward, D. D. Late Minister of Poplar.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: [1787]- Books
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The baseness and perniciousness of the sin of slandering and backbiting. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. Late Minister of Popler.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1762- Books
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A proper answer to a vile, Anonymous Libel. Written by L. D. N. Chiefly against John Lockman, Secretary to the Society of the Free British Fishery. In a letter to Slingsby Bethell, Esq; President of the said Society.
Lockman, John, 1698-1771.Date: 1753