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LIBELS

Were, to at large upon the evils produced by public that multiplied Newspapers
taken if promiscuous opinions
I should not soon have done but I should
of &c
never have done upon the that subject of the advantages

[There is not say they any portion in the Law more firmly established or
more generally recognized than this]

[It is said] that the essence of every Crime consists in the intention
it is needless not to enter into a tedious and nugatory applications of this principle to
every Crime in the Calendar, it is and is portable that even in Homicide
the act of the most apparent & uncontrollable mischief mischievous consequence of any to society the criminality
depends of the person who committs it his intention:] entirely upon it it is so the criminality
of the intention alone that constitutes the criminality
of the act from person who committs it: How much more than
might this to hold of an Action of such doubtful
mischievousness if any as passing that censure. public censuring +
print upon any man or set of men which that they must will
so frequently deserve — can there be any pretence for treating this nor so then a doctrine taken
up in the heat of party to serve a particular occasion
— it is laid down in the most expressexplicit and
terms by an Author of established reputation who
whose prejudice if any certainty are not in favourablesurely will not be suspected of any partial attachment
to that cause in favor of which it is here applied
besides that if he were, the position as he lays it down is so general as
well as reasonable, that there cannot could not be a shadow
of suspicion that it was adopted to for that purpose, or for serve this particular
along other it's apparent reasonableness turn. S<hi rend="superscript">r Wm Blackston in his Commenta.In all
SCANDAL As a vitious ble without a vitious act is no civil

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	194	Info in main headings field	scandal printed - vitious will - blackstone
Image	001	Titles	libels
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys]]]
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