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Item 38
App. IIAJ
Libel Act 1792
[1987 Ed.
contending parties, to the satisfaction and approbation of such governors or directors of such insurance office respectively.
86. No action to lie against a person where the fire accidently begins. And.... no action, suit or process whatever shall be had, maintained or prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, stable, barn or other building, or on whose estate any fire shall.... accidentally begin, nor shall any recompence be made by such person for any damage suffered thereby, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding: And in such case, if any action be brought, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial thereupon to be had; . . . . provided that no contract or agreement made between landlord and tenant shall be hereby defeated or made void.
Item 39
THE LIBEL ACT 1792
(32 Geo. 3 c. 60)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 13, p. 1120]
An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Functions of Juries in Cases of Libel.
Whereas doubts have arisen whether on the trial of an indict-ment or information for the making or publishing any libel, where an issue or issues are joined between the King and the defendant or defendants, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, it be competent to the jury impanelled to try the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue:
[1.] On the trial of an indictment for a libel the jury may give a general verdict upon the whole matter put in issue.-On every such trial the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
2. The court shall give their opinion and directions. Provided always, that on every such trial the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried shall, according to their or his discretion, give their or his opinion and directions to the jury on the matter in issue between the King and the defendant or defendants, in like manner as in other criminal cases.
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Item 38
App. IIAJ
Libel Act 1792
[1987 Ed.
contending parties, to the satisfaction and approbation of such governors or directors of such insurance office respectively.
86. No action to lie against a person where the fire accidently begins. And.... no action, suit or process whatever shall be had, maintained or prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, stable, barn or other building, or on whose estate any fire shall.... accidentally begin, nor shall any recompence be made by such person for any damage suffered thereby, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding: And in such case, if any action be brought, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial thereupon to be had; . . . . provided that no contract or agreement made between landlord and tenant shall be hereby defeated or made void.
Item 39
THE LIBEL ACT 1792
(32 Geo. 3 c. 60)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 13, p. 1120]
An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Functions of Juries in Cases
of Libel.
Whereas doubts have arisen whether on the trial of an indict- ment or information for the making or publishing any libel, where an issue or issues are joined between the King and the defendant or defendants, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, it be competent to the jury impanelled to try the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue:
[1.] On the trial of an indictment for a libel the jury may give a general verdict upon the whole matter put in issue.-On every such trial the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
2. The court shall give their opinion and directions. Provided always, that on every such trial the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried shall, according to their or his discretion, give their or his opinion and directions to the jury on the matter in issue between the King and the defendant or defend- ants, in like manner as in other criminal cases.
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