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Corporation or body politic
name, and holds and enjoys property by such name. A corporation can sue or be sued for a libel, but it cannot one in respect of an imputation of murder, or incest, or adultery, because it could
Colloquium
A talking together; a conversation. 2. An old term in pleading applied to the statement in declaration for libel or slander that the libellous or slanderous imputation had reference to the plaintiff.
single publication rule
single publication rule : a rule in the law of libel that treats an edition of a print source (as a magazine) as one publication giving rise to one
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libellee
libellee also li·bel·ee [lī-bə-lē] n 1 : a party against whom a suit has been instituted by a libel
Criticism, comment
book, play, or picture submitted for public approval. As to when criticism is fair and honest and no libel, see Joynt v. Cycle Trade Publishing Co., (1904) 2 KB 292; Thomas v. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd.,
Presentment
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
H'retico comburendo, De
they might have done before the Act; see 53 Geo. 3, c. 127, s. 3. Consult Odgers on Libel
Injunction
to whom it is addressed, the receiver having only a special property in it; the publication of a libel; the proper use by one man of the trademarks or name of another person; the disclosure of secrets
Inveniens libellum famosum et non corrumpens punitur
Inveniens libellum famosum et non corrumpens punitur [Lat.], he who meets with a notorious libel, and does not destroy it,
Lame duck
cant term on the Stock Exchange meaning that a broker or jobber cannot fulfil his contracts; it is libellous, Morris v. Langdale, (1800) 2 Bos & Pul 284.
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