 | e. & g.w. blunt - 1828 - 884 páginas
...that cause, were put at rest by the act of April 6th, 1805, (test. 28, ch. 90,) which declared that the jury shall have a. right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court ; and that it shall be lawful to give the truth in evidence,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1828 - 880 páginas
...that cause, were put at rest by the act of April 6lh, 1805, (m-ss. 28, ch. 90,) which declared that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court ; and that it .shall be lawful to give the truth in evidence,... | |
 | 1831 - 494 páginas
...The constitutions of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, declare that ' in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have...under the direction of the court, as in other cases.' A similar provision exists in the constitution of Delaware, with this difference, that it omits the... | |
 | David Lee Child, John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 124 páginas
...the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public...the truth thereof may be given in evidence ;" and in this respect her example has been followed in many if not most of the States of later origin. But even... | |
 | John Cain - 1832 - 360 páginas
...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...and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall hare a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - 1833 - 630 páginas
...investigating Libels, how the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the tned' matter published is proper for public information,...the law and the facts, under the direction of the courts. SEC. 15. Returns of all elections I'or officers who are to be commis- Election resioned by... | |
 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - 1833 - 664 páginas
...or when the £,rr°[S"unl matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof nay be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...determine the law and the facts under the direction of »he courts. 2. PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, &c. 'П. It shall be lawful for any... | |
 | William Darby, Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 634 páginas
...for public m. formation, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictment* for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, nnder the direction of the courts, as in other cases." See. 15. — The person of a debtor, where there... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 páginas
...the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in...facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other criminal cases. SEC. 20. That no retrospective law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1851 - 822 páginas
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public...given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels iheJury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as... | |
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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... 
