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12.
C
Of Unlawful Defamation
account in question; the duration, by the length of
time during which such contempt or aversion respectively
continues: the extent, by the number of the
persons by whom it is entertained.
Justification
1. Defamation shall not be punishable, where
the matter of fact advanced is true: except in the case of
certain Offences and other disreputable Practices consisting
in the abuse of the sexual Appetite: to wit, 1. Adultery.
2. Simple Fornication. 3. Seduction. 4. Incest. 5. Incestuous
seduction. 6. Abortion. 7. Unnatural Impurities
7. Sexual intercourse with the same sex. 8. Sexual intercourse with a
different species.
Unless where the party had before the Defamation been convicted
of the fact in question in course of Law.
2.
Identifier: | JB/067/049/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
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067 |
liberty of the press |
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049 |
of unlawful defamation |
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002 |
justifications |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
2 |
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recto |
f11 / f12 |
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myears |
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caroline fox |
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21882 |
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