| New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 722 pages
...right ; and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable cuds, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| New York (State) - Session laws - 1823 - 516 pages
...right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 pages
...no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
| Francis Smith Eastman - New York (State) - 1828 - 320 pages
...that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...right; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
| New York (State) - Law - 1829 - 826 pages
...right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberty011 of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
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