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Home Dictionary Name: libel Page: 5 Page 5 of about 94 results ( seconds)Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum
Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum, (No one is bound to betray himself.) No one is bound to swear to the fact of his own criminality, no one can be forced to give his own oath in evidence of his guilt.The (English) Evidence Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99), which by s. 5 makes parties admissible witnesses in actions, expressly saved criminal proceedings from its operation, but a series of particular enactments, e.g., the (English) Licensing Act, 1872, s. 51, the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 20, and the (English) Law of Libel Amendment Act, 1888, s. 9, and finally the general (English) Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (see that title), make defendants competent, but not compellable, to give evidence....
True, public, and notorious
True, public, and notorious. These three qualities used to be formerly predicated in the libel in the Ecclesiastical Courts, of the charges which it contained, at the end of each article severally....
Picture
Picture. For copyright in, see FINE ARTS; and as to the copyright in a picture not registered at the commencement of the Copyright Act, 1911, see E.W. Savory v. World of Golf, (1914) 2 Ch 566. Where framed pictures are sent by rail, the frames as well as the pictures are within the Carriers Act [Henderson v. London and N.W. Ry. Co., (1870) LR 5 Ex. 90]; and see CARRIER. A picture may be libellous (5 Rep. 125); consult Odgers on Libel....
Presentment
Presentment, a very comprehensive term, including not only presentments properly so called, but also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury; properly speaking, the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the Crown; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like, upon which the officer of the Court must afterwards frame an indictment before the party presented can be put to answer it.Presentments are also made in courts-leet and courts-baron, before the stewards, 1 Steph. Com....
Privilege
Privilege, a privilege is the opposite of a duty, and the correlative of 'no-right', Isha Valimohamad v. Haji Gulam Mohamad and Haji Dada Trust, AIR 1974 SC 2061 (2065): (1974) 2 SCC 484: (1975) 1 SCR 720. [Bombay Rents Hotels and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947 s. 51(1)(ii)]An exceptional or advantage; an exemption from some duty, or attendance, to which certain persons are entitled, from a supposition of law, that the stations they fill or the offices they are engaged in, are such as require all their care; and that, therefore, without this indulgence, it would be impracticable to execute such offices so advantageously as the public good requires.The separate privileges of either House of Parlia-ment are extensive, but they are at the same time uncertain and indefinite. Amongst those privileges are, the power of committing persons to prison; the power of publishing matters which, if not issuing from such high authority, might become the subject of proceedings in a Court of la...
Record, Courts of
Record, Courts of, those whose judicial acts and proceedings are enrolled on parchment, for a perpetual memorial and testimony; which rolls are called the Records of the Court, and are of such high and supereminent authority that their truth is not to be called in question. Courts of Record are of two classes-Superior and Inferior. Superior Courts of Record include the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and a few others. The Mayor's Court of London, the County Courts, Coroner's Courts, and others are Inferior Courts of Record, of which the County Courts are the most important. Every superior Court of record has authority to fine and imprison for contempt of its authority; an inferior court of record can only commit for contempts committed in open court, in facie curi'. See Co. Litt. 117 b, 260 a; Odgers on the Common Law; Odgers on Libel....
Reputation
Reputation, credit, honour, character, good name. Injuries to one's reputation, which is a personal right, are defamatory. See CHARACTER; LIBEL.Certain private and public rights may be established by reputation, e.g., highways [Austin's case, (1672) 1 Vent. 181]; commons, Warwick v. Queen's College, Oxford, (1871) 6 Ch App 716; connection of mark or name with goods: see TRADE MARKS....
Scripture
Scripture. The canonical books of the Old and New Testaments. See Articles of Religion. Art. VI. All profane scoffing of theHoly Scripture, or exposing any part theeof to contempt and ridicule, is punishable by fine and imprisonment (Roscoe on Criminal Evidence, 8th Edn. p. 666); and by 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32, a conviction of a person educated in the Christian religion of having by writing or advised speaking denied the Divine authority of Scripture entails deprivation of all offices ecclesiastical, civil, or military. See CHISTIANITY. Consult Odgers on Libel, 5th Edn. p. 485....
Six Acts
Six Acts (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, cc. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9), passed to put down seditious meetings, etc.; of these, c. 1, the Unlawful Drilling Act, 1819; c. 4, the Pleading in Misdemeanour Act, 1819; and c. 8, the Criminal Libel Act, 1819, are still unrepealed...
Threats
Threats, or menaces of bodily hurt, through fear of which a man's business is interrupted, are civil injuries affecting the right of personal security. The remedy for this species of injury is in pecuniary damages.By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 30,Every person who with intent:(a) to extort any valuable thing from any person, or(b) to induce any person to confer or procure for any person any appointment or office of profit or trust,(1)publishes or threatens to publish any libel upon any other person whether living or dead; or(2)directly or indirectly threatens to print or publish or directly or indirectly proposes to abstain from or offers to prevent the printing or publishing of any matter or thing touching any other person (whether living or dead),shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.See also, s. 29 (ibid.), as to threats to accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL.Th...
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