Libel and slander - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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England's alarm! On the prevailing doctrine of libels, as laid down by the Earl of Mansfield. In a letter to His Lordship. By a country gentleman. To which is added by way of appendix, the celebrated dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer, written by Sir William Jones, wit remarks thereon, and on the case of the Dean of St. Asaph. By M. Dawes, Esq
Country gentlemanDate: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- E-books
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May it please your Lordship, your Lordship's, great candor and readiness in redressing of grievances, encourage us, at the instance of a great number of the gentry of the county of Anglesey, humbly to remind your Lordship on their behalf, how unfortunate they are for want of a more legal and impartial exercise of that power, which the bounty of the Crown has lodged in the Lord Viscount Bulkeley, who is Custos Rotulorum of that county, constable of the castle of Bewmares, chamberlain of North-Wales circuit, and vice-admiral of North-Wales
Owen, Arthur, fl. 1709.Date: 1709]- E-books
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The baseness and perniciousness of the sin of slandering and back-biting. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. minister of Popler
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1706- E-books
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A sketch of English liberty! Illustrated by precedents for proceeding on attachment and by interrogatories in the Court of King's Bench, in matter of libel: being the case of a free citizen, who was two years imprisoned for a supposed libel, without trial, conviction, or sentence.
Bingley, William, 1737 or 8-1799.Date: 1793]- E-books
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A second postscript to a late pamphlet , entitled, A Letter to Mr. Almon, in matter of libel. By the Author of that Letter.
Author of that letter, Letter to Mr. Almon.Date: 1770