...defamation, expreffed either to blacken the memory of one who is books laid down, by which we can cerdead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expofe him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. §. 2. But it is tiiiil, That in a larger fenfe the notion of a libel may be applied to any defamation...

...England, is a malicious defamation, exprefled either in words or writing, or by figns, pictures, &c. tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is living. 5 Co. rep. de Libellis famofis, p. i25.— * In England the punifhment may be by fine, pillory,...

...it is, In a ftrict fenfe, taken for a malicious defamation, expreffed either in writing or printing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one who...him to '• . public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. §. 2. But it is faid, That in a larger fenfe the notion of a libel may be applied to any defamation...

...Libtl, in a ftriñ fenfe, fignifies a malicious defamation or afperfion of another, «xprcfied cither in printing or writing, and tending either to blacken the memory of one that is dead, or the reputation of one that is alive; and, in a larger fenfe, any defamation whatfoever....

...or Writing, or by Signs, liciousDeuPicvtures, We. tending either to blacken the Memory of Wriu"g"or one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, Printing, or and thereby expofing him to public Hatred, Contempt and ^ s'8"s> Ridicule, and may be...

...the living, fome* times againft the dead 45 . HAWKINS fays, ' It feemeth, that a libel, ' in a ftrid fenfe, is taken for a malicious * defamation, expreffed...dead, or the * reputation of one who is alive, and to ex* pofe him to public hatred, contempt, or ' ridicule46.' * Sucn fcandal as is expreffed in a fcoff'...

...defamation, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken either the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, or to expose him to public hatred, contemot, or ridicule. This offence may be punished, either by indictment...

...B. 1, Ch. 73, S. 1, " A malicious defamation ex*! pressed either in printing or writing, and tending to blacken the memory « of one who is dead, or the reputation of one wiio is alive, and to expose « him to public hatred, contempt, or ridkule." * Will then the words...

...defined to be a malicious defamation, expressed cither in prioting or writing, or by signs, pictures, Ac. tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby exposing him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. Libels, siys Blackstone, taken in their...

...naStions defamation, expressed cither in printing or writing, or by signs, pictures, Jcc. tending cither to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one wbo is alive, and thereby exposing him to psblic hatred, contempt, and ridicule. Libels, says Blackstone,...