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.
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Sheppard, William, d. 1675?
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London :: Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, & T. Basset ...,
1662.
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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 9.

Snagg and Gees Case. An Action was brought for these words, Thou hast killed my Wife, and art a Traitor; and it was adjudged that the Action would not lye, for the Wife (as appeared) was alive, and so vain, and no scandal, but otherwise it would be, if shee had been dead. Coo. 4. 16.

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