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Of Unlawful Defamation.

Practices on the score of some general qualities that are imputed to him.

4. Acts or practices which expose a man to aversion
or contempt are either, 1. Acts or Practices prohibited
by the Law: or 2. Other disreputable Acts or Practices
at large.

5. Acts or Practices prohibited by the Law are either
1. First-rate Crimes. 2. Second-rate crimes. 3. Misdemeanours.
4. Mere civil offences. See table Refer here to the catalogue of offences.
6.


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Justification

1. Defamation shall not be punishable,
Where the matter of fact is true: except in
the case of certain offences, and other disreputable practices,
consisting in the abuse of the venereal appetite: to wit,
1. Adultery. 2. Simple fornication. 3. Seduction. 4. Incest.
Incestuous Seduction. 6. Abortion. 7. Unnatural Impurities.
Unless where the party had before the Defamation
been convicted of the fact in question, is (or in) course of Law.

2. But the burthen of Proof lies upon the Defamer
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Identifier: | JB/067/045/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

9-14

Box

067

Main Headings

liberty of the press

Folio number

045

Info in main headings field

of calumniation

Image

002

Titles

reasons

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f3 / f4

Penner

Watermarks

myears

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

21878

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