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Mar. 1809

Press. Ch. . Co-Offenders

§§.2. Consequences

1
Consequence of this
comprehensiveness —

Law executed, scarce
of an individual of
crime-committing age
out of Jail. p.9.

2.
Certainly no "public
"person". p.9.

2*
Except the quondam
Daily Advertiser, scarce
a News-paper for these
48 years but has been
a libel "violating the
"feelings of persons in
"high situations" — if
censure will do it.
p.10

3.
If, to produce this
effect, participation in
Newspaper libelling
would not suffice, that
and historical do together
would. p.11

3(a)
Cok Quotation from
Coke's report V.125.3 J.S.

4.
And the History is
not the less a libel
for being true — as per
Hol. Rep. 252. p.11

5.
Objection — Impossible
Answer — What is in
question is not possibility
but law. p.12.

6.
Persons in high situations
who would be
thus in Jail.
1. Bishops for reading
Burnett's Reformation.
p.12

7.
2. Judges of B.R. who
ought to committ
themselves as Blackstone
Pope burnt
himself. p.13.

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§§.2. Consequences

8
Objection — Absurdity
Answer — Not the less
law. No opening a
law digest in half
a dozen places at random
without finding
an equal absurdity.
p.14.

8(a)
In Leach's Crown Cases,
Indictment for killing
a man twice over,
good per twelve Judges.
In do most of the
questions equally absurd.
viz. whether by the negligence
real or pretended
of a law scribe
a criminal shall be
let off. p.14

9.
Be the absurdity &
atrocity ever so great,
no complaint from
the man of law, they
are his —
fish, mole, beetle p.15

10
Merit claimed by
Perceval Atty Genl
in R v Cobbett for
forbearance in non-prosecution
of libels.
p.15

11.
This is the merit
tyranny seeks the
having it in her
power to give herself
justice as often as
passion or convenience
calls for execution, mercy
at all other times.
p.15.

12.
Gibbs' now Atty Genl
has entered on the
career of universal
prosecution.

In Hogan's case
not content with the
one original publisher
he prosecutes 25 derivative
ones. p.16.

Identifier: | JB/026/024/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 26.
Date_1	1809-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 2*, 3, 3a, 4-8, 8a, 9-12
Box	026	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field	press ch. co-offenders
Image	001	Titles
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