The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of EnglandMacmillan and Company, 1880 - 568 pages |
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... objects and purposes of Churchmen and Dissenters are now , or ought to be , the same ; their methods are not , and need not be entirely the same . The main differences are merely a history of the steps by which they arrived from ...
... objects and purposes of Churchmen and Dissenters are now , or ought to be , the same ; their methods are not , and need not be entirely the same . The main differences are merely a history of the steps by which they arrived from ...
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... of Houses of Parliament . Societies and clubs having unlawful objects and oaths Debating societies Protection of public meetings against disturbance Restrictions on places for lectures and addresses Right to petition 62.
... of Houses of Parliament . Societies and clubs having unlawful objects and oaths Debating societies Protection of public meetings against disturbance Restrictions on places for lectures and addresses Right to petition 62.
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... Object and origin of trade mark . 340 Trade mark distinguished from patent . 341 Use of trade mark is to identify maker of goods 341 Infringement of trade mark not necessarily fraudulent 342 Registration of trade marks 343 Usual ...
... Object and origin of trade mark . 340 Trade mark distinguished from patent . 341 Use of trade mark is to identify maker of goods 341 Infringement of trade mark not necessarily fraudulent 342 Registration of trade marks 343 Usual ...
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... object and business of life , and of its own primary care , is never so well satisfied with its solution of a diffi- culty as when it can liken all other objects of its regard to a species of property , which can be seen , and handled ...
... object and business of life , and of its own primary care , is never so well satisfied with its solution of a diffi- culty as when it can liken all other objects of its regard to a species of property , which can be seen , and handled ...
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... objects , and every man must have personal objects of some kind , worthy or less worthy . In Security of character and reputation protected by la - Hence , if any one imputes to another the commis- sion of an act which would amount to ...
... objects , and every man must have personal objects of some kind , worthy or less worthy . In Security of character and reputation protected by la - Hence , if any one imputes to another the commis- sion of an act which would amount to ...
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Page 184 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
Page 348 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 314 - ... of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law nor mischievous to the State, by raising prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient...
Page 239 - Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting, and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted, and published, books and other writings, without the consent of the authors or proprietors of such books and writings, to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families...
Page 219 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 345 - I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Page 84 - Yet who can doubt that the public are gainers by the change, and that, though injustice may often be done, and though public men may often have to smart under the keen sense of wrong inflicted by hostile criticism, the nation profits by public opinion being thus freely brought to bear on the discharge of public duties?
Page 40 - ... against their ruinous consequences, and exert his whole faculties in pointing out the most advantageous changes in establishments which he considers to be radically defective, or sliding from their object by abuse. All this every subject of this country has a right to do, if he contemplates only what he thinks would be for its advantage, and but seeks to change the public mind by the conviction which flows from reasonings dictated by conscience.
Page 139 - Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for the purpose of condemnation, he exercises a fair and legitimate right.
Page 360 - ... every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's