 The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice of mankind. A wilful intention to pervert, insult, and mislead others, by means of licentious and contumelious abuse applied to sacred subjects, or by wilful misrepresentations or artful sophistry,...  The Law Quarterly Review - Page 358edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1830 - 474 pages
...minds. It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice...artful sophistry, calculated to mislead the ignorant and unwary, is the criterion and test of guilt. A malicious and mischievous intention, or what is equivalent... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...foundation. It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice of mankind." (Starkie on Libel, 2d Ed., Vol. II. pp. 145, 146.) In like manner, Lord Erskine has expressed himself,... | |
 | 1840 - 450 pages
...foundation. It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice of mankind." (Starkie on Libel, 2d Ed., Vol. 11. pp. 145, 146.) In like manner, Lord Erskine has expressed himself,... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visite not the honest errors, but the malice of mankind....artful sophistry, calculated to mislead the ignorant and unwary, is the criterion and test of guilt Indecent Libels. Although an opinion formerly prevailed,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 468 pages
...... It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice of mankind. A ivilful intention to pervert, insult, and mislead others, by means of licentious and contumelious abuse... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...libel did not consist in an honest denial of the truths of the Christian religion, but in "a willful intention to pervert, insult, and mislead others by...and contumelious abuse applied to sacred subjects "; and further, that an authority to publish libellous matter was not a presumption of law, but a question... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 846 pages
...ones It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice...artful sophistry, calculated to mislead the ignorant and unwary, is the criterion and test of guilt. A malicious and mischievous intention, or what is equivalent... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 824 pages
...ones It is the mischievous abuse of this state of intellectual liberty which calls for penal censure. The law visits not the honest errors, but the malice...subjects, or by wilful misrepresentations or artful sopliistry, calculated to mislead the ignorant and uuwary, is the criterion and test of guilt. A malicious... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 654 pages
...blasphemous libel does not consist in an honest denial of the truths of the Christian religion, but in a wilful intention to pervert, insult and mislead...and contumelious abuse applied to sacred subjects. — Region v. Ramsay If Foote, 48 LT 783. (vii.) QB Div. — Distress Damage feasant — Impounding... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1880 - 858 pages
...times for a mere decent expression of disbelief in Christianity. Air. Starkie many years ago wrote, ' A wilful intention to pervert, insult, and mislead others, by means of contumelious abuse applied to sacred subjects, or by wilful misrepresentations and artful sophistry... | |
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