 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1800 - 444 pages
...will not cure them. But where, from their general •— — import, they appear to have been fpoken with a view to defame a party, the court ought not to be induftrious in putting a conftruction upon them, different frnm what they bear in the com. mon acceptation... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East - 1808 - 472 pages
...Mansfield lays down the rule, that " where words from their general import appear to have been fpoken with a view to defame a party, the Court ought not to be induftrious in putting a conftrudtion upon them different from what they bear in the common acceptation... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 pages
...case of Peake v. Oldham, Cowp. 275, Lord Mansfield says, " where from their general import, the words appear to have been spoken with a view to defame a...bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them." ' In Demurest v. Baring, 6 Co-wen, T6, the court say, "the doctrine of construing words in mitiori... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 pages
...them ; but where, from their general import, they appear to have been spoken with a view to defame the party, the court ought not to be industrious in putting...bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them. I am furnished with a case, founded in strong sense and reason, in support of this opinion. The name... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1830 - 688 pages
...them ; but where, from their general import, they appear to have been spoken with a view to defame the party, the court ought not to be industrious in putting...bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them. 1 am furnished with a case, founded in strong sense and reason, in support of this opinion. The name... | |
 | Sandford Nevile, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir William Montagu Manning - 1834 - 904 pages
...in his judgment in the case which has been already referred to, says, " where it is clear that the words are defectively laid, a verdict will not cure...different from what they bear in the common acceptation 1833. and meaning of them. " And his lordship referred to a SV^^PPLC ease in which tlic Court, upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - 1846 - 1124 pages
...executioner:" and these words were held actionable. Lord Mansfield there says: " "Where it is clear that the words are defectively laid, a verdict will not cure...bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them." So, in Roberts v. Camden (c), it is laid down, that the rule of construction as to slanderous words,... | |
 | 1849 - 546 pages
...than murder* Mr. Borthwick replied. It is a rule of law, that where words from their general import appear to have been spoken with a view to defame a party, the Courts ought not to be industrious to put a construction on them different from their common acceptation.... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 pages
...charge the plaintiff with being guilty of murder. Where he said, the words, from their general import, appear to have been spoken with a view to defame a...bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them. Oldham v. Peake, 2 W. Bl. 959; Peake v. Oldham, Cowp. 275; Pelton v. Ward, 3 Caines's Rep. 77; Fare... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1858 - 666 pages
...J.— 3 Cow. 239.— 5 id. 714. 3. Where words from their general import appear to have been SlKiken with a view to defame a party, the Court ought not to bo industrious in putting a construction upon them different from what they bear in the common acceptation... | |
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What! after a verdict, shall the court be guessing and inventing a mode, in which it might be barely possible for these words to have been spoken by the defendant, without meaning to charge the plaintiff with being guilty of murder ? Certainly not. Where... 
