Libel and slander -- Cases

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• Decision of Judge J.C. Jenkins of the court of first instance for the judicial district of Manila, part IV, in the action for damages brought by Dean C. Worcester against the owners, directors, writers, editors and administrators of the newspaper known as "El renacimiento y muling pagsilang." ([Manila, 1910]), by Philippine Islands. Courts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Cases on equitable relief against defamation and other injuries by writing or speaking : supplementary to Ames's Cases in equity jurisdiction, vol. 1 / comp. and ed. by Roscoe Pound (Cambridge, Mass. : Issued privately, 1915), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Detraction Displayed (New York: Orville A. Roorbach, 1828), by Amelia Alderson Opie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), by Daniel J. Solove (PDF files with commentary at GWU)
• A concise summary of the law of libel as it affects the press, by William G. Henderson ... (Rutherford, N. J., Chemical bank note company, 1915), by William Graham Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les droits de l'histoire; la diffamation envers les morts et la critique historique, par Charles Azard ... (Paris, A. Rousseau, 1901), by Charles Azard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newspaper libel, a handbook for the press, by Samuel Merrill. (Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1888), by Samuel Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of facts relative to the conduct of Mr. Benjamin Joy, executor of the last will and testament of the late Joseph Barrell of Charlestown [by Charles Barrell, Henry F. Barrell, and others. (Boston : [n.p.], August, 1816.]), by Charles Barrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the sins of the tongue / delivered in the Church on Church Green by Alexander Young. (Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845), by Alexander Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• A final reply to the numerous slanders, circulated by Nathaniel Chapman, M.D. Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. ... (Baltimore [Md.]: Printed by J. Robinson ..., 1821), by Granville Sharp Pattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Dead room" envelopes and useful lists of the New York Evening Post. Also the libel law, with explanatory notes. ([New York], 1914), by New York post (page images at HathiTrust)
• A faithful report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius, and William Coleman ... Being an action for a libel, held at the sittings before His Hon. Judge Livingston; on the third of January, 1807 ... Taken by Mr. Sampson, in short-hand ... (New-York, Bernard Dornin, T. Kirk, printer, Brooklyn, 1807), by Philip I. Arcularius (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the wrongs called slander and libel, and on the remedy by civil action for those wrongs, together with a chapter on malicious prosecution. By John Townshend. (New York, Baker, Voorhis & co., 1890), by John Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires [à consulter, pour P.A.C. de Beaumarchais, accusé de corruptien de juge; contre M. Goëzman, juge accusé de subornation & de faux; Madam Goëzman, & le sieur Bertrand, accusés; les sieurs Marin, gazetier, Darnaud Barculard, conseiller d'ambassade, & consors.] ([Paris? Clousier?, 1775?]), by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slander and its victims; with sketches on Death, the Resurrection, and the Judgment. By S. A. W. of Virginia. (Baltimore, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Ḥafets ḥayim ʻal halakhot isore lash. ha-r. ṿe- rekhilut ṿe-avaḳ shelahen. (Ṿilna, bi-defus A.Y. Dṿorzets, 1873), by ha-Kohen Israel Meir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Detraction displayed / By Amelia Opie. (New York : Orville A. Roorbach, 1828), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detraction displayed. / By Amelia Opie. (New-York; : Published by Orville A. Roorbach, W.E. Dean, printer., 1828), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The triumph of virtue the trial of Miss Mary Ann Tocker, who plead her own cause, for an alleged libel on R. Gurney, Jun. ... to which is prefixed a letter to Miss Tocker, and to which is added an address to jury-men on their duties as jurors, and especially on trials for criminal libel / by William Cobbett. (Boston : Printed for N. Coverly, 1818), by Mary Ann Tocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The government of the tongue. By the author of The whole duty of man, &c. ... (Oxford, At the Theater, M. DC. LXXIV. (1674)), by Richard Allestree (page images at HathiTrust)
• The government of the tongue / by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. (Oxford : At the Theater, 1675), by Richard Allestree (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Beschimpfung Verstorbener (Braunschweig : Appelhans & Pfenningstorff, 1894), by Richard Herbst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le délit de diffamation. Étude de droit comparatif et De lege ferenda, par Johan C. W. Thyrén. (Lund, C. W. K. Gleerup; [etc., etc., 1918]), by Johan Carl Wilhelm Thyrén (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treatise on the law of slander, libel scandalum magnatum, and falserumours including the rules which regulate intellectual communications, affecting the characters of individuals and the interests of the public ... By Thomas Starkie. esq. ... With notes, & references to American decisions by Thomas Huntington. (New York, Collins, 1832), by Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indianapolis news Panama libel case. Circumstances preceding the return of the indictments and proceedings for the removal to the District of Columbia for trial of Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, publishers of the Indianapolis news. Order for removal denied October 13, 1909, by the United States District court for the district of Indiana, Hon. Albert B. Anderson, judge. Stenographic report by Miss Margaret Wells; reported by Louis B. Ewbank (Indianapolis, Ind. [The Fulmer-Cornelius press], 1909), by Indianapolis news (page images at HathiTrust)
• An answer to a pamphlet entitled A review of a trial of Andrew Hill, for murder, by Edward D. Worthington, A.M.! M.D.! one of the governors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, I.C.! etc., etc., etc. / by Robert Short. (Sherbrooke [Québec] : [s.n.], 1871), by Robert Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Ehrenverletzung nach russischem Recht : seit dem XVII. Jahrhundert ... / von Boris Utin. (Dorpat : [s.n.], 1857), by Boris Utin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the wrongs called slander and libel, and on the remedy by civil action for those wrongs, to which is added in this edition a chapter on malicious prosecution. By John Townshend. (New York : Baker, Voorhis & co., 1877), by John Townshend (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complaint of James Alexander and William Smith to the Committee of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York, &c ([New York : Printed by John Peter Zenger, 1735?]), by James Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the wrongs called slander and libel, and on the remedy by civil action for those wrongs. By John Townshend (New York, Baker, Voorhis & co.; [etc.,etc.], 1868), by John Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of libel : in which is contained a general history of this law in the ancient codes, and of its introduction, and successive alterations, in the law of England : comprehending a digest of all the leading cases upon libels, from the earliest to the present time / by Francis Ludlow Holt. (New-York : Pub. by Stephen Gould, law bookseller : J.T. Murden, printer, 1818), by Francis Ludlow Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of the press; a study of the legal doctrine of "qualified privilege," by Samuel Arthur Dawson ... with a foreword by Henry Woodward Sackett ... (New York, Columbia university press, 1924), by Samuel Arthur Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Government of the Tongue (second impression, 1674), by Richard Allestree (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Traité des délits et contraventions de la parole, de l'écriture et de la presse, par M. Chassan ... (Paris, Videcoq; Colmar, Reiffinger, 1837-39), by Joseph Pierre Chassan (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la diffamation envers les particuliers (Bordeaux : G. Delmas, 1902), by Pedro Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Prince Woronzoff contre le Prince Pierre Dolgorouky et le "Courrier du dimanche" : Plaidoirie de M. Mathieu... (Paris : Poulet-Malassis, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Droit romain: Du jus sepulcri. Droit francais: De las diffamation... Par Joseph Fayout (Paris : A. Derenne, 1884), by Joseph Fayout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Procès intenté par le conseil municipal de Bordeaux, à l'auteur de la Tribune de La Gironde, relativement à la journée du 12 Mars 1814. (Périgueux : F. Dupont, 1820), by Félix Pujos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Procès intenté par le conseil municipal de Bordeaux, à l'auteur de la Tribune de La Gironde, relativement à la journée du 12 Mars 1814. (Périgueux : F. Dupont, 1820), by Félix Pujos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Procès de M. Bertin aîné, rédacteur en chef et gérant responsable du Journal des Débats accusé d'offense à la personne du roi, et d'attaque contre la dignité e royale. (Paris : Le Normant fils, 1829), by Louis François Bertin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The hidden harbor mystery / by Franklin W. Dixon. (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1961), by Franklin W. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Beschimpfung Verstorbener (Braunschweig : Appelhans & Pfenningstorff, 1894), by Richard Herbst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ein Urteil des Berliner Kriminalgerichts / beleuchtet von Johann Jacoby. (Leipzig : O. Wigand, 1864), by Johann Jacoby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criminal Libel and the Duty of Juries, by Joseph Towers and Francis Maseres (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
• De la législation anglaise sur le libelle, la presse et les journaux ... (Paris, A. Eymery, 1817), by M. de Montvéran (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the law of libel and slander; with the evidence, procedure, and practice, both in civil and criminal cases, and precedents of pleadings. By Melville M. Bigelow, PH. D. (Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1881), by William Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A digest of the law of libel and slander : with the evidence, procedure, and practice, both in civil and criminal cases, and precedents of pleadings / by W. Blake Odgers. (London : Stevens, 1881), by William Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The law of libel and slander : the evidence, procedure, and practice, both in civil and criminal cases, and precedents of pleadings, with a chapter on the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act, 1881 / by W. Blake Odgers. (New York : Banks & Brothers, 1891), by William Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander, libel, scandalum magnatum, and false rumours : including the rules which regulate intellectual communications, affecting the characters of individuals and the interests of the public : with a description of the practice and pleadings of personal actions, informations, indictments, attachments for contempts, &c., connected with the subject / by Thomas Starkie. (New York : G. Lamson, 1826), by Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions / By Thomas Starkie. (West Brookfield, Mass. : O. S. Cooke, 1852), by Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial of James Whiting, John Parsons, and William Congreve : for a libel against the Hon. G.C. Berkeley, rear admiral of the Red, and one of the representatives in Parliament for the county of Gloucester; by a special jury, before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, June 27th, 1804 / taken in short hand by Mr. Gurney ; together with the letters and papers which are referred to in the course of the trial. (Buckingham [Buckinghamshire : G.C. Berkeley] : Printed and sold by J. Seeley ..., 1804), by George Cranfield Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions / by Thomas Starkie. (Albany : from the steam press of C. Van Benthuysen and Co., 1843), by Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the majority in the House of commons, on the question relating to general warrants. In answer to The defence of the minority. (London, Printed for J. Wilkie, 1765), by Charles Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the law concerning libels : containing all the resolutions in the books on the subject, and many manuscript cases / by a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple. (Dublin : Printed by William Hallhead, 1778), by Gentleman of the Inner-Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the inquiry instituted by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter as visitor of the Orphans' Home, established by the Sisters of Mercy, at Morice Town, Devonport : into the truth of certain statements published in the "Devonport Telegraph," February 10th, 1849. (Plymouth : Roger Lidstone, 16, George Street ; London : J. Masters, Aldersgate Street ; Exeter : H. J. Wallis, MDCCCXLIX [1849]), by Church of England. Diocese of Exeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Another letter to Mr. Almon, in matter of libel. (London, Printed for J. Almon, 1770) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contempts by publication; the law of trial by newspaper, by Harold W. Sullivan. ([New Haven] : Priv. print. [Yale University Press], 1940), by Harold Wadsworth Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press; showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel: with copious notes and references to authorities in Great Britain and the United States: as applicable to individuals and to political and ecclesiastical bodies and principles. By Thomas Cooper. (New York, G. F. Hopkins, 1830), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter concerning libels, warrants, the seizure of papers, and sureties for the peace or behaviour; with a view to some late proceedings, and the defence of them by the majority. With the postscript and an appendix. (London, Printed for J. Almon , 1771), by Father of Candor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton, First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury (London : Printed for J. Almon, 1767), by John Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folkard's Starkie on slander and libel : including pleading and evidence, civil and criminal : also, malicious prosecutions, contempts of court / by Henry Coleman Folkard (New York ; Albany : Banks & Brothers, 1877), by Henry Coleman Folkard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Examination into the rights and duties of jurors, with some strictures on the law of libels / by a gentleman of the Inner Temple (London : Printed for T. Whieldon, 1785) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter concerning libels, warrants, the seizure of papers, and sureties for the peace of behaviour; with a view to some late proceedings, and the defense of them by the majority. (London, J. Almon, 1765), by pseud Father of Candor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter concerning libels, warrants, and the seizure of papers, with a view to some late proceedings, and the defence of them by the majority. (London, Printed for J. Almon, 1764), by pseud Father of Candor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discussions of the law of libels as at present received, in which its authenticity is examined; with incidental observations on the legal effects of precedent and authority. (London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1785), by James Adair (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter concerning libels, warrants, the seizure of papers, and sureties for the peace or behaviour; with a view to some late proceedings, and the defence of them by the majority. (London : Printed for J. Almon, 1765), by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the extent of the power of juries, on trials of indictments or informations, for publishing seditious, or other criminal writings, or libels, extracted from a miscellaneous collection of papers that were published in 1776, intituled, Additional papers concerning the province of Quebec. To which is added An enquiry into the question whether juries are, or are not, judges of law, as well as of fact; with a particular reference to the case of libels. (London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1785), by Francis Maseres (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to works of literature and art: embracing the law of copyright, the law relating to newspapers, the law relating to contracts between authors, publishers, printers, &c., and the law of libel. (London, H. Cox, 1871), by John Shortt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions / by Thomas Starkie. (Hartford, Conn. : J.L. Wendell, 1858, c1843), by Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of libel and slander; the evidence, procedure, and practice, both in civil and criminal cases, and precedents of pleadings, with a chapter on the Newspaper libel and registration act, 1881. By W. Blake Odgers (Philadelphia, The Blackstone publishing company, 1887-88), by William Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Consider the Law of Defamation and libel, and to report thereon to the House : with the minutes of evidence taken before the Committee, and an index / ordered to be printed 1st June 1843. ([London, 1843]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on the Law of Defamation and Libel (page images at HathiTrust)
• March's Actions for slander, and arbitrements : first written by Jo. March of Grayes-Inn, barrister, in the year, 1648. And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: / by W.B (London : Printed for E. Walbanck, 1674), by John March (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on the Law of Libel; together with the Proceedings of the committee, Minutes of evidence, and Appendix ([London, 1879]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Law of Libel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctrine of libels and the duty of juries fairly stated / by the author of the Excise scheme dissected, etc., The fatal consequences of ministerial influence, etc. and several other pieces in favour of our Constitution (London : Printed for M. Cooper, 1752) (page images at HathiTrust)

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