190
Fair and honest.
p. 208.
P. 209.
Malice.
P. 319.
Halice evidence,
p. 326.
Costs.
P.
411.
etate tne in ference at an inference and
not to assert it as a new and independent
fact; otherwise nis inference will be
some thing more than a comment and he may
be driven to justify it as an allegation
of fact.
Every Latitude must be given to opinion
and to prejudice and then an ordinary
set of men with ordinary judgment must
Bay whether any fair man would have made
such a comment on the work,
Would any fair men, nowover exaggerated
and obstinate his views, nave said that
which this criticism has said.
The comment must be such that a fair
wind would use under the circumstances
and it must not mis-state facts because
a comment cannot be fair which is built
upon facts which are not truly stated.
Proof of not essential.
If he has published words which have in
fgot injured the plaintiff's reputation
he must be taken to have intended the
consequences naturally resulting from
his act,
The plaintiff has to show what was in the
defendant's mind at the time of pubica-
tiou and of that, no doubt, the defen-
dant's acts and words on that occasion
are best evidence,
Hence now if a plaintiff recovers
nominal damages for words which were
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