A heavy judgment for libel hanging suspended over him, he fled from America, and from the justice he had aroused, to commence in England a fresh career of unquestioned talents, unaccountable inconsistency, and inexhaustible malignity.
The libel which cast every stone within its reach at his living name, long continued to heap them on his grave.
And lately he received a letter from his Majesty, along with the defamatory libel of his opponent.
It was apparent at once that there was ample room for an action for libel against the newspaper, on the part of Phineas Finn if not on that of the Duke.
Phineas determined that if frowned upon he would resign, but that he certainly would bring no action for libelagainst the "People's Banner.
Such enactment denotes a struggle in the Athenian mind, even at that time, against the mischief of making the Dionysiac festival an occasion for unmeasured libel against citizens publicly named and probably themselves present.
A printer at Hamburg had been arrested on the charge of having printed a libelin the German language.
To avoid irritating the susceptibility of the Minister of Police I wrote to him the following few lines:--"The libel is the most miserable rhapsody imaginable.
It is worthy of remark that the Swedish and English Ministers, as soon as they read the article, waited upon the editor of the Correspondent, and expressed their astonishment that such a libel should have been published.
Napoleon read a libel on himself, and contrasted the compliments which had passed between him and the Queen of Prussia with the brutal-behaviour ascribed to him in the English newspapers.
The police published pamphlets of all sorts, and the Comte de Montgaillard was brought from Lyons to draw up a libel implicating him with Pichegru and the exiled Princes.
An action would lie against him, not for the speech delivered in Parliament, but for the publication of the libel under his revision, and upon his authority, in a widely circulated periodical.
I have high judicial authority for the statement that in spite of this rule the position of a member of Parliament in the matter of libel is not impregnable.
It is a well-known fact, much appreciated in quarters personally concerned, that no action for libel may be based upon words spoken in the House of Commons.
Finally it was for the jury to consider whether the letter was a libel and if so what the amount of damages should be.
He then justified his libel and gave the names of the persons whom he intended to call to prove his case.
It was a civil action brought by Miss Travers, who claimed L2,000 damages for a libel written by Lady Wilde to her father, Dr.
The charge, he said, was that the defendant had published a false and malicious libel against Mr. Oscar Wilde.
The libel was in the form of a card which Lord Queensberry had left at a club to which Mr. Oscar Wilde belonged: it could not be justified unless the statements written on the card were true.
Whatever else you do, you must not bring an action for criminal libel against Queensberry.
The libel consisted in an article accusing the president of a stock company of swindling.
The first case before the Senate was an appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a judgment in favor of the publisher of a newspaper in a libel suit brought against him.
Is it true that you were once threatened with a criminal prosecution for libel on religion?
The Dred Scott decision was a libel upon the best men of the Revolutionary period.
It was perhaps as well for de Mirecourt, and others of his kidney, that libel actions had not then been added to the perils of authorship.
Feeling herself damaged in reputation, Lola's next step was to instruct her solicitor to bring an action for libelagainst Seekamp.
An answer to the libel presently appeared, which was signed S.
I am well aware that each letter I have written on the subject would, if untrue, constitute a libel, and I knew the editors, printers, and publishers of these papers were as liable or responsible for libel as I was.
Approaching the present case more minutely, he would observe that the prosecutor, by deleting from this libel the charge of obstruction, which was passive, had cut away the ground from under his feet.
All the statements, giving a different account of their conduct, are absolutely false, and a libel upon their good conduct and peaceable character.
It is a libel upon the parental instinct (it can not be called feeling) to allow any child in the United States to arrive at years of maturity without acquiring a good plain, solid education.
Others who are opposed to any amelioration sustain their views by a libel upon woman, and upon her Almighty Creator.
Because the tendency to cause quarrels was the essence of the crime, the truth of the libel was not a defense, but might be an aggravation of criminality.
One, who had been convicted for libel before, was branded on both cheeks: "S.
Seditious libel was defined as "false, scandalous, and seditious" writings.
Seditious libel trials in England and the colonies were followed closely and their defendants broadly supported.
Criminal seditious libel was brought into the common law courts in 1664, when Benjamin Keach was tried for writing a book containing contradictions of the doctrine of the established church.
No one shall libel by accusing another of treason in writing and leaving it in an open place without subscribing his own name to it.
No one shall slander or libel the king by speeches or writing or printing or painting.
James discharged the two justices of the five who had rejected the seditious libel doctrine which had been created by the Star Chamber Court.
The civil suit of trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.
No one shall libel or slander so as to cause a rebellion.
They could still punish heresy, but lost jurisdiction over the law of libel and slander, which then were transformed by the civil courts, and over prostitution and scandalous lewdness.
It is therefore a direct insinuation that the court had judged wrong in all they have done in this case, and is therefore clearly a libel on the administration of justice.
As the law now stands it is permissible to publish contemporaneous reports of the proceedings in cases pending in any court (Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888, s.
The publishing of a libel is not necessarily in a newspaper," retorted Mr. Akerson.
We are not at all business-like--I admit that--and we certainly did not mean to libel you.
No one shall slander or libel the King by speeches or writing or printing or painting.
In 1707 a "libel on the Governor" was hanged by the hangman.
The allegedlibel in the placards was the assertion that ministers were bringing starvation upon the people by their measures.
Mr. Shapland’s family jars, and the part he had himself taken therein; and this was the libel complained of.
Mr. Ricketts had been libelled in the Worcestershire Chronicle, as it was alleged that Mr. Ellins had supplied the information on which the libel was founded.
That is mere subterfuge; he intends a libelagainst yourself.
