ON THE

LAW OF SLANDER,

LAW asa Norcross,

LIBEL, SCANDALUM MAGNATUM,

AND

FALSE RUMOURS;

INCLUDING

THE RULES

S. Strong.

WHICH REGULATE INTELLECTUAL COMMUNICATIONS,
AFFECTING THE CHARACTERS OF INDIVIDUALS

AND THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC.

With a Description of the Practice and Pleadings in personal
Actions, Informations, Indictments, Attachments for
Contempts, &c. connected with the Subject.

BY THOMAS STARKIE, ESQ.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN, ARRISTER AT LAW.

Our Law in this and many other respects corresponds rather with the middle age of Roman
Jurisprudence, when Liberty, Learning, and Humanity, were in their full vigour, than with the
cruel Edicts that were established in the dark and tyrannical ages of the ancient Decemviri or
the later Emperors."-Blackstone's Comm. vol. iv. p. 151.

"The Pleadings of the Parties are in this Action much to be heeded, for the
Plaintiff or Defendant either of them in this may, by his Omission or Commission,
very quickly advantage or prejudice himself, and, therefore, they must be very
careful herein.”—Sheppard. Actions for Slander, p. 260.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES

TO AMERICAN AND THE LATE ENGLISH CASES.

BY EDWARD D. INGRAHAM, ESQ.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE LAMSON.

J. & J. Harper, Printers.