 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...lustre. Frankness, suavity, tenderness, benevolence, breathed through their exercise." * NOTE. I. The liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on Government, magistracy, or individuals. II. That the allowance... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 966 pages
...lustre. Frankness, suavity, tenderness, benevolence, breathed through their exercise."* NOTE. I. The liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on Government, magistracy, or individuals. II. That the allowance... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 1222 pages
...as defined by Hamilton, arguendo, OCTOBER TERM 1825. (3 Johns. Cas. 352,) " consists in publishing with impunity, truth with good motives and for justifiable ends, whether it relates to men or measures." This definition is adopted by Kent J. (ibid. 393), and in this sense,... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 480 pages
...like every other, may be abused, and often is abused. The liberty of the press consists in publishing with impunity truth, with good motives, and for justifiable ends, whether it relates to men or measures, invective and contumely, can never effect a good object, or prevent the... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1869 - 420 pages
...Henry Croswell, unfolds the true doctrine of the liberty of the press in these remarkable words : " The liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, the truth, with good motives, and for justifiable ends, whether it respects governments, magistrates,... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...regulate themselves by Hamilton's proposition, which has become a recognized maxim of our law: "The liberty of the press consists in the right to publish,...it respects government, magistracy or individuals." But, after all, it may be asked, " What do you propose to do? If a contempt of court is committed,... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 498 pages
...slandering President Jefferson. Hamilton, of counsel for the defendant, declared in his argument : "The liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals. * * * But he did... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...down in what Judge Kent calls the ' comprehensive and accurate definition' of Alexander Hamilton: 'the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish,...it respects government, magistracy, or individuals/ " The question as to how far a newspaper may comment upon matters of public interest, which involve... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1877 - 838 pages
...his thoughts in the more improved way invented by human ingenuity in the form of the press."1 "The liberty of the press consists in the right to publish...motives and for justifiable ends, whether it respects governments, magistracy, or individuals."2 In the sense of unlicensed, the press has been free since... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...America, who maintained that the liberty of VOL. XXVII —17 Castle v. Houston. the press consisted in the right to publish with impunity, truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends, whether it respected government, magistracy, or individuals. It certainly was derived from the polluted source... | |
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Cas. 336, 394, adopted, as a definition of the phrase "liberty of the press," what was said by General Hamilton in his brief in that case, where it was set forth that "the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, truth, with... 
