The Law of Literature: Reviewing the Laws of Literary Property in Manuscripts; Books, Lectures, Dramatic and Musical Compositions; Works of Art, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c.; Copyright Transfers, and Copyright and Piracy; Libel and Contempt of Court by Literary Matter, Etc, 1. köideJ. Cockcroft, 1875 |
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... course , and his works assume their place among the classics of his country - your law declares that his works shall become your property , and you requite him by seizing the patri- mony of his children . " But the time of a wider ...
... course , and his works assume their place among the classics of his country - your law declares that his works shall become your property , and you requite him by seizing the patri- mony of his children . " But the time of a wider ...
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... course , is , that private feelings , however commendable in individuals , ought not to be permitted to interfere with public rights . With so many motives for suppression and modification of by - gone speeches , as every active ...
... course , is , that private feelings , however commendable in individuals , ought not to be permitted to interfere with public rights . With so many motives for suppression and modification of by - gone speeches , as every active ...
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... course of serious discussion , and with intent to make known or recommend opinions entertained by the accused , such words are not blasphemy . ” 2 Blackstone quotes the Dome - Book as extant so late as the reign of Edward IV . 3 4 Bl ...
... course of serious discussion , and with intent to make known or recommend opinions entertained by the accused , such words are not blasphemy . ” 2 Blackstone quotes the Dome - Book as extant so late as the reign of Edward IV . 3 4 Bl ...
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... course to its farthest spring , because black rocks may encircle the spot whence it rushes into day , and demon shapes , frightful but powerless for harm , may gleam and frown on us beside it ? " It was urged also that the poem of ...
... course to its farthest spring , because black rocks may encircle the spot whence it rushes into day , and demon shapes , frightful but powerless for harm , may gleam and frown on us beside it ? " It was urged also that the poem of ...
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... course of their respective reigns as wicked , corrupt , and fatal measures to this kingdom ; and also to asperse , scandalize , and vilify the late king and his ad- ministration of the government of this kingdom ; and to make it thought ...
... course of their respective reigns as wicked , corrupt , and fatal measures to this kingdom ; and also to asperse , scandalize , and vilify the late king and his ad- ministration of the government of this kingdom ; and to make it thought ...
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Abraham Newland abridgment action alleged appears Bing blasphemous libels blasphemy called character charge Christianity committed common law composition considered contained contempt of court copy courts of equity courts of justice criminal damages defamation defamatory defendant doctrine England entitled equity false grand jury Griffith Gaunt guilty held imprisonment imputation indictment injunction injury innocent intention Johns judge judgment king labor letter lished literary property lord chancellor Lord Eldon Lord Ellenborough malice manuscript matter means ment morals Mumler newspaper obscene offense opinion original paper party person picture piracy plaintiff post-office postage postmaster postmaster-general principle printing and publishing privileged proceedings produced proprietor protection publication punishment question religion restrain rule scandalous seditious libel Shortt Slander and Libel statute thereof tion Townshend on Slander trial Wend words writing written
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Page 190 - ... in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 138 - Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally and without just cause or excuse.
Page 65 - If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...
Page 74 - AN ACT FOR PREVENTING THE FREQUENT ABUSES IN PRINTING SEDITIOUS, TREASONABLE AND UNLICENSED BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, AND FOR REGULATING OF PRINTING AND PRINTING-PRESSES (14 Car.
Page 208 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty...
Page 321 - The second way is that of paraphrase, or translation with latitude, where the author is kept in view by the translator, so as never to be lost, but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense, and that too is admitted to be amplified, but not altered.
Page 100 - A libel is a malicious publication expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
Page 208 - 'the proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this : that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact — that the defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill-will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made,' " and Lord Lindley in Stuart v.
Page 79 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 289 - Nothing is more incumbent upon Courts of Justice, than to preserve their proceedings from being misrepresented ; nor is there anything of more pernicious consequence, than to prejudice the minds of the public against persons concerned as parties in causes, before the cause is finally heard . . . There are three different sorts of contempt.