 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1838 - 456 pages
...may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law an(^ the facts, under the direction of the <jQiirt ** *n other cases. [See 3 Yeates, 520.] Sec. VIII.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 310 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse ofthat liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating...is proper for public information, the truth thereof imy be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | Philip Phillips - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 412 pages
...publishing of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...the law and the facts, under the direction of the courts. SEC. 15. Returns of all elections for officers who are to be commissioned by the governor,... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...freely speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. 8. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from unreasonable... | |
 | Maine - Law - 1841 - 922 pages
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Maine. Legislature. Senate - Parliamentary practice - 1842 - 130 pages
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized....proper for public information, the truth thereof may 1* given in evidence ; and, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments...under the direction of the court as in other cases." — Const. Art. IX. Sec. VII. AD 1790. Ib. — " That all laws of this commonwealth, in force at the... | |
 | Illinois - Illinois - 1845 - 766 pages
...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...in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court as in other cases.... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and, in all indictments... 
