| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That ths people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable... | |
| Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1855 - 226 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,... | |
| 1855 - 576 pages
...that priviicge ; and no law shall ever be passed, curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press. 6. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 788 pages
...write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that libery ; that in prosecations for the publication of papers investigating the official...Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. This is the situation in which the Constitution... | |
| Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 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 lav ami the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That the people shall be... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - 1857 - 570 pages
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the courts, as in other cases.... | |
| Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 466 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting 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.... | |
| Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 480 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting 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.... | |
| United States. Congress - 1858 - 788 pages
...freely speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsble for the abuse of that libery ; that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...in a public capacity, or where the matter published i» proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 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...conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence... | |
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