Action upon the case for slander, or, A methodical collection under certain heads of thousands of cases dispersed in the many great volumns of the law, of what words are actionable and what not and of a conspiracy, and of a libel : being a treatise of very great use and consequence to all men, especially in these times, wherein actions for slander are more common than in times past : with an exact table annexed for the ready finding out of any thing therein / by W. Sheppard.
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Action upon the case for slander, or, A methodical collection under certain heads of thousands of cases dispersed in the many great volumns of the law, of what words are actionable and what not and of a conspiracy, and of a libel : being a treatise of very great use and consequence to all men, especially in these times, wherein actions for slander are more common than in times past : with an exact table annexed for the ready finding out of any thing therein / by W. Sheppard.
Author
Sheppard, William, d. 1675?
Publication
London :: Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, & T. Basset ...,
1662.
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Subject terms
Libel and slander -- Great Britain.
Conspiracy -- Great Britain.
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"Action upon the case for slander, or, A methodical collection under certain heads of thousands of cases dispersed in the many great volumns of the law, of what words are actionable and what not and of a conspiracy, and of a libel : being a treatise of very great use and consequence to all men, especially in these times, wherein actions for slander are more common than in times past : with an exact table annexed for the ready finding out of any thing therein / by W. Sheppard." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59706.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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Case 111.
Doctor Caesar versus Curseny, Mich. 35, 36 Eliz. B. R. An Action for words, That whereas the Plaintiff was Iudge of the Admiralty, and I. S. had a Suit against the Defendant, and the Defendant said, That the sentence given by the Plaintiff, Innuendo sententiam predictam, &c. was corruptly given, and upon not guilty, a Verdict, and a Motion to ar∣rest the Iudgement, it was adjudged for the Plaintiff, Croo. 1 last pub∣lisht. 305.