Libellant - Law Dictionary Search Results
County Courts
general jurisdiction are all personal actions where the debt, demand or damage claimed is notmore than 100l. except libel, slander, seduction, or breach of promise of marriage, ejectment where either the value of the lands or the
Crime
in cotradistinction to felony, and comprehends all indictable offences which do not amount to felony, as perjury, battery, libels, conspiracies, etc. see OFFENCE, and consult Russell on Crimes, and Mellor v. Denham, (1880) 5 QBD 467, and
Criminal information
'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and notorious misdemeanours, riots, batteries, libels, and other immoralities. Criminal informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppressive
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Welcher
not actionable without proof of special damage; but see Williams v. Magyer, Times, 1st March, 1883; Odgers on Libel, p. 49.
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