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1818 July 3 Penal Code

Extra Printing is are includes writing

If in any printed written (1) and published discourse In case of defamation
of official persons
dependant to be at

liberty to plead and
prove the truth of
the imputation
delinquency in any respect of any part of his political duty or power
a member of the official established
is imputed to any member of the Official governing body Establishment+ + Of say the
is included
of the state or to the whole as any branch of that body
collectively and in respect of such imputation the author
or any person concerned in the production or publication of
it be sued as for wrongful defamation or vitu Wrongful Vituperation,
the defendant shall be at liberty to plead the
truth of the imputation, and to prove the truth of it by
all such evidence as he can produce.

From the best of the species of evidence thus producible Defendants own
evidence not excluded
that of the defendant himself is not excluded

Nor that of any person on whom the imputation nor that of any
person on whom the
imputation attaches
attaches: the as vexation liable to be produced by answer
made to questions tending to the extraction of such evidence,
affords not any receivable ground for the exclusion
of it: that is for forbidding such question to be put.(a)

Note (a)

(a) The Provisions to this effect the proper places are the Code of
Procedure: and in it the division of which Evidence is the
subject.[+] The name use of them being brought to view in the [+] The non-exclusionary
system there proposed
will be seen to extend
not to this case alone
but to all others
place is that the nature of the here proposed check on
misrule, may be the more plainly understood.

Not to afford those facilities for defence against a
suit for political defamation or vituperation would be
employ the present Code in the character of a support to misrule -conduct upon the smaller and the production of mischief
scales
to misrule in in a word to tyranny every imaginable degree. It would be to
support and excite misconduct upon the largest scaleand produce mischief, which inby the
very work had for the discarded object the checking of misconduct

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Identifier: | JB/106/250/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1818-07-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	106	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	250	Info in main headings field	penal code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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