Law of Libel
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defamation · law of libel · sedition · the law of libel
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)
Conflicts between judge and jury over the law of libel, and one State trial after another raising the question, what were the lawful limits to freedom of speech and writing, show that even in the political world freedom of opinion, as we now understand it, was far from well established.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The legal categories of sedition and defamation, forming the residual legal limits on free expression as other restraints faded.
Conflicts between judge and jury over the law of libel, and one State trial after another raising the question, what were the lawful limits to freedom of speech and writing, show that even in the political world freedom of opinion, as we now understand it, was far from well established.
Statutes or common law rules which, except on the ground of sedition or defamation, interfered with liberty of speech or writing were, in practice at any rate, obsolete.
Law in a Free State
Existing area of law concerning defamation, identified as underlying the question of a right to privacy.
The law of libel lies beneath.