 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...and opii,ions is one of the invaluable rights ot Man ; and every citizen may freely speak, writel and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecuttons for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of off,cers, or men... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...injured party ^ but of the public. The seventh sec- \ gQ9. tion cf the same article provides, that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi- WEALTH cers or men in a public capacity, the truth may be given in "». evidence. This, say the... | |
 | Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...speak,write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. Sect. 23. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse...investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 538 pages
...freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. "3th. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capaci•ty, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1825 - 400 pages
...and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and -every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for libels, their truth or design may be given in evidence on the general issue, and their nature and tendency,... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 658 pages
...Constitutions of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois, provide that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...the free communication of thoughts and opinions, as one of the most invaluable rights of man. In all prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the truth... | |
 | David Lee Child, John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 124 pages
...this indeed the people of Pennsylvania, had inserted this as an article of her constitution ; " that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information the truth thereof... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and, in all indictments... 
