 A libel is the malicious defamation of a person, made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation, or effigy tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose' him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or to deprive him of the benefits...  Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases - Page 41191904 - 7839 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1952 - 1030 pages
...by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule,...tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." Iowa Code Ann, 1949, §737.1; Kan. Gen. Stat, 1935, §21-2401; Dart's La. Crim. Code,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 506 pages
...either any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule,...tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." Perjury, also, is well defined.* And that most impalpable of legal essences, an assault... | |
 | Maine - Law - 1841 - 922 pages
...either any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule,...tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends. SECT. 2. Every person who makes, composes, dictates, writes or prints a libel, or who directs... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...either any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule,...tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends. Every person who makes, composes, dictates, writes or prints a libel, or who directs or... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule,...aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one that is dead, and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." 2 Definitions... | |
 | Kansas - Session laws - 1859 - 726 pages
...by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule,...him of the benefits of public confidence and social intereourse, or any malicious defamation, made public as aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify... | |
 | William Wirt Virgin - Civil procedure - 1874 - 672 pages
...by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation, or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule,...benefits of public confidence and social intercourse ; or of a deceased person, thus made public, designed to blacken and vilify his memory, and tending to scandalize... | |
 | Llewellyn Powers - Trials (Libel) - 1874 - 410 pages
...any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation, or effigy, tendency to provoke him to wrath, expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule,...benefits of public confidence and .social intercourse." The publication must in its nature be defamatory of the pi., that is, it may be a publication of reports... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1876 - 580 pages
...effigy, tending to provoke i''' n to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicu .. or to deprive him of the benefits of public confidence...aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one that is dead, and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives or friends." 1 Definitions... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1877 - 838 pages
...by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation, or effigy, tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule,...aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one that is dead, and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving from, and prevents our confounding... | |
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