| New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 722 páginas
...to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to...as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable cuds, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| New York (State) - 1823 - 516 páginas
...to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to...as libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| 1826 - 228 páginas
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 páginas
...restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| James Kent - 1827 - 544 páginas
...latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 páginas
...affords facility and encouragement to the plea." Another section of the same statute declares, that in all prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, * with a proviso couched in exactly the same terms, with that in the constitution of New- York. Some... | |
| Francis Smith Eastman - 1828 - 320 páginas
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 páginas
...to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
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