 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 718 pages
...freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or...abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 pages
...freely speak, write and pub lish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 228 pages
...freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or...abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, bemg responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or...abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - New York (State) - 1828 - 320 pages
...freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or...abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall... | |
 | New York (State) - 1831 - 392 pages
...freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or...abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or...abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 928 pages
...freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or...abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall... | |
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In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party... 
