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Publish, means (1) To make known or announce publicly; promulgate; proclaim. (2) To print and issue to the public. (3) To communicate to a third person, Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary, International Edn.; C.C.E. v. New Tobacco Co., (1998) 8 SCC 250.Publish, means to make generally accessible or available; to place before or offer to public; to bring before the public for sale or distribution. Thus the word 'publish' connotes not only an act of printing but also further action of issuing or making it available to the public, Legal Glossary, Published by the Legislative Department, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Government of India in 1992; C.C.E. v. New Tobacco Co., (1998) 8 SCC 250.To publish a news item is to make it known to people in general; 'an advising of the public or making known of something to the public for a purpose 'The purpose of s. 3 animates the meaning of the expression 'publish'. 'Publication' is 'the act of publishing anything; offering it to publi...


Publisher of libellous matter

Publisher of libellous matter, is liable both civilly and criminally in respect of any such matter he may publish, and his civil liability exists even though the publication takes place without his knowledge. 'Not only the party who originally prints, but every party who sells, who gives, or who lends a copy of an offensive publication will be liable to be prosecuted as a publisher', R. v. Mary Carlile, (1819) 3 B&Ald P. 169, per Bayley, J. if the publisher of a book becomes bankrupt, an author to whom royalties are due is not in anymore favourable position than other creditors, and can only prove for the damages he has sustained by the breach of contract, Re Grant Richards, (1907) 2 KB 33.As to the duty of publishers to send a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom to the British Museum and other libraries, see Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo.5, c. 46), s. 15, and the British Museum Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 34), also BRITISH MUSEUM....


publish

publish 1 : to make known to another or to the public generally NOTE: For purposes of defamation, a defamatory communication made to only one third party may be considered published. 2 a : to proclaim officially [ an enactment] b : to declare (a will) to be a true and valid expression of one's last will c : to reproduce (an opinion) in a reporter 3 a : to disseminate to the public or provide notice of to the public or to an individual (as through a mass medium) [ordered to the citation in the legal notices for three weeks] see also notice by publication at notice b : to distribute or offer for distribution to the public copies of (a copyrightable work) by some transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or loan 4 : utter pub·lish·er n ...


Publisher

One who publishes as a publisher of a book or magazine...


Publishable

Capable of being published suitable for publication...


Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...


Banns of marriage

Banns of marriage. 'Banns' is the plural of 'Bann' or 'Ban,' an edict or prohibition. The Prayer Book of 1662 directed banns of marriage to be published in church 'three several Sundays or Holy Days immediately before the sentences for the offertory' (this was in the Rubric prefixed to the Form of Solemnisation), but also after the Nicene Creed, together with many other notices separated from those sentences by the sermon (this direction was in the Rubric following the Nicene Creed, and the two directions do not seem quite consistent). In 1753 (English) Lord Hardwicke's Act (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), directed publication during morning service, or evening service if there be no morning service, immediately after the Second Lesson; and about 1809 the Rubrics were altered by the king's printers of their own motion to bring them into agreement with Lord Hardwicke's Act, which, however, may possibly have referred in its alteration to the evening service only. The (English) Marriage Act, 1823 (4 G...


libel

libel [Anglo-French, from Latin libellus, diminutive of liber book] 1 : complaint used esp. in admiralty and divorce cases 2 a : a defamatory statement or representation esp. in the form of written or printed words ;specif : a false published statement that injures an individual's reputation (as in business) or otherwise exposes him or her to public contempt b : the publication of such a libel c : the crime or tort of publishing a libel see also single publication rule New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in the Important Cases section compare defamation, slander NOTE: Although libel is defined under state case law or statute, the U.S. Supreme Court has enumerated some First Amendment protections that apply to matters of public concern. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Court held that in order to recover damages a public person (as a celebrity or politician) who alleges libel (as by a newspaper) has to prove that “the statement was made with ‘actual malice’ &...


Law Reports

Law Reports. Reports of judgments of courts on points of law, published for the purpose of being used as precedents (see (REPORTS). Prior to 1865, these reports were all executed and published as mere private speculations, one reporter or pair of reporters being usually, though not always, accredited by the chief judge of each Court. For an account of these reporters and their works, see Handbook of English Law Reports, by Master Fox. In 1865 'The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales' began to publish monthly the reports called The Law Reports. These, though perhaps the best known, have no monopoly-for contemporaneous monthly reports are published under the name of The Law Journal, and contemporaneous weekly reports under the names of The Law Times Reports, The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter and All England Reports, and The Times Law Reports. All reports made by members of the Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbrev...


Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...


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