This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...for the defendant or defendants. IV. Provided always, and it is hereby expressly declared and enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken, or held, or construed, directly or indirectly, by implication or otherwise, to affect the privileges of Parliament in any manner whatsoever. Offer of an apology ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...for the defendant or defendants. IV. Provided always, and it is hereby expressly declared and enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken, or held, or construed, directly or indirectly, by implication or otherwise, to affect the privileges of Parliament in any manner whatsoever. Offer of an apology admissible in evidence in mitigation of damages. LORD CAMPBELL'S ACT. (6 & 7 Vict. C. 96.) An Act to amend the Law respecting Defamatory Words and Libel. Foe the better protection of private character, and for more effectually securing the liberty of the press, and for better preventing abuses in exercising the said liberty, be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that in any action for defamation it shall be lawful for the defendant (after notice in writing of his intention so to do, duly given to the plaintiff at the time of filing or delivering the plea in such action) to give in evidence, in mitigation of damages, that he made or offered an apology to the plaintiff for such defamation before the commencement of the action, or as soon afterwards as he had an opportunity of doing so, in case the action shall have been commenced before there was an opportunity of making or offering such apology. II. And be it enacted, that in an action for a libel con-In an action tained in any public newspaper or other periodical publication, aSainst a it shall be competent to the defendant to plead that such libel libel, tha was inserted in such newspaper or other periodical publica-f?tw ay tion without actual malice and without gross negligence, and was inserted that before the commence...
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