Printers

Printers. Every person who shall print anything which is meant to be published or dispersed, and shall not print upon the front or the first or last leaf, in legible characters, his name and usual place of abode or business, or who shall take any part in publishing or dispersing any printed matter without such name and address, shall forfeit for each copy a sum not more than five pounds (2 & 3 Vict. c. 12, s. 2); and see the Newspapers Printers and Reading Rooms Repeal Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 24), and enactments, including 1 & 2 Vict. c. 12, s. 2, contained in the second schedule thereto, as being excepted from the repeals effected thereby.

For compelling discovery of the printer of a newspaper, see Dixon v. Enoch, (1872) LR 13 Eq. 394.