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Of or pertaining to sedition partaking of the nature of or tending to excite sedition as seditious behavior seditious strife seditious words...
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...
Meeting
Meeting, an assembly of persons whose consent is required for anything to decide, by a proper majority of votes, whether or not that thing shall be done; e.g., the meeting of the town council under s. 22 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Acts, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), or (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo.5, c. 51), s. 75.By Common Law in the absence of other provisions a corporation is bound by the majority present at a regular corporate meeting and not only by an absolute majority of the corporation (this does not apply to companies), Perrott and Perrott Ltd. v. Stephenson, (1934) 1 Ch 171; and see Kyd on Corporations, Vol. 1, p. 400; or of the parish or parish council: see PARISH COUNCIL; PARISHMEETING. Also a meeting of the shareholders of a company under ss. 66-80 of the (English) Companies Clauses Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16). As to meetings of creditors, see (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 13, 79 and 95. A company formed under the Companies Act, 1929...
Public meeting
Public meeting, a meeting which any person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and in any case in the public streets, which are lawfully used for the purpose of passing and repassing only (see the ruling of Charles, J., in the Trafalgar Square case in 1887, and Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English law.Political meetings within a mile of Westminster Hall during the session of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:-1.-(1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty ...
Sedition
Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79); the (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 19), jointly called the '(English) Corresponding Societies Acts,' and much resembl-ing one another. Registered friendly societies are exempted by s. 32 of the (English) Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, s. 23, which has no parallel in the Act of 1799, political meetings of more than fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are declared unlawful on any day on which Parliament is sitting. By s. 25 of the Act of 1817, and s. 2 of the Act of 1799, every society or club, the members of...
Society
Society. Associations designated by the name of 'society' include (1) Building Societies, regulated by the (English) Building Societies Acts, as to which see BUILDING SOCIETIES; (2) Friendly Societies, regulated by the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, as to which see FRIENDLYSOCIETIES; (3) Industrial and Provident Societies, regulated principally by the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, as to whichs see INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES; (4) Loan Societies, regulated by 3 & 4 Vict. c. 110, as to which see LOAN SOCIETIES; (5) Literary and Scientific Societies, regulated by the (English) Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854. And exempted from rates by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 36, as to which see that title; and other benevolent or useful societies, e.g., see (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 18, and (6) Illegal Societies, prohibited by the Unlawful Societies Act, 1799, and the very similar (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817, as to which see SEDITIOUS, and Chitty's Statutes,...
Eacutemeute
A seditious tumult an outbreak...
Factious
Given to faction addicted to form parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good turbulent seditious prone to clamor against public measures or men said of persons...
Incendious
Promoting faction or contention seditious inflammatory...
Insurrectionary
Pertaining to or characterized by insurrection rebellious seditious...
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