 | 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
...liberty. 10. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutioni for any publications, respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the Commonwealth v . Whitmarsh. Lillie... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...SEC. 6. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. SEC. 7. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from all unreasonable... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Law - 1846 - 240 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for any publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | African Americans - 1847 - 428 pages
...liberty. "In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...under the direction of the court, as in other cases.'' Article 2 regulates the "legislative powers." The legislature is to consist of two branches — a House... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...liberty. 8. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papsrs, and possessions, from unreasonable... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1847 - 480 pages
...official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the truth thereof may be given...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Sxc. XI. That Courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person,... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1847 - 600 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of oilieers, or of men acti-ig in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...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... 
