 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 978 pages
...party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has, or honestly believes he has, a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contains criminatory matter, which without this interest would be slanderous or actionable." It is... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 656 pages
...subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, " or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made " to a person having...corresponding interest or duty, although " it contain criminating matter, which, without this privilege, " would be slanderous and actionable." The proceedings... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - Torts - 1859 - 594 pages
...communicating, or the party communicated with, has an interest, or in reference to which the former has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having...this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable. And it has even been held that a communication made bond fide for the purpose of obtaining redress... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 662 pages
...any subject matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having...this privilege would be slanderous and actionable." He added that "duty" in the proposed canon could not be confined to legal duties, but must include... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 752 pages
...any subjectmatter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having...this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable." Whether or not the occasion gives that privilege is a question of law for the Judge ; but whether the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 770 pages
...any subjectmatter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having...this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable." Whether or not the occasion gives that privilege is a question of law for the Judge; but whether the... | |
 | Charles Manley Smith - Labor laws and legislation - 1860 - 622 pages
...Jtfevct, 5 IT. CL Rep. 79. & F. 419. communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has и duty, is privileged, if made to a person having a...this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable." III. Communications made by a person in the conduct of his own affairs where his interest is concerned.... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1861 - 874 pages
...subjectmatter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty (q), is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding...criminatory matter which, without this privilege, would be slan(g) Lewis v. Leey, 6 WR 630, judg- v. Clapham, BRE 15 Car. I., Sir W. QB 282, SC; and see Duncan... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 652 pages
...in which the party com- CARBOLL. •• municating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a • duty, is privileged, if made to a person having...although it contain criminatory matter which, " without the privilege, would be slanderous and actionable." And again : — " Duty in the proposed canon cannot... | |
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A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory... 
