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 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...refponfible for the abufe of that liberty. In prufecutions for the publication of pa« pers, inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all... | |
 | Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1799 - 606 pages
...refponfible for the abufe of that liberty. 8. in profecutions for the publication of papers, inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments... | |
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...for the abufe of that liberty. SECT. 8. In profecutions for the publication of papers inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publi(hed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...freely speak, write, and print on any. subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. But in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of ofacers or men in public capactty, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...of that liberty. Jn profecutions for the publication of papers^ inveftigtting the official conducl of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence i And, in all... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...injured party ^ but of the public. The seventh sec- \ gQ9. tion cf the same article provides, that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi- WEALTH cers or men in a public capacity, the truth may be given in "». evidence. This, say the... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...the conjunction, fa doing which we shall read the whole thus, " In prosecutioni for the publications of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity ; or in prosecutions for the publication of papers where the matter published is proper for public information,... | |
 | Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...speak,write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. Sect. 23. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 648 pages
...from and vafter the passing of that act, no person should be subject to prosecution by indictment, for the publication of papers investigating the official...conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity." It was decided, that the act embraced the case of l)nn>:,\ but a distinction was taken between civil... | |
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