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" The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 113
by William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867
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The Law of the Press: A Digest of the Law Specially Affecting Newspapers ...

Joseph Robert Fisher, James Andrew Strahan - Press law - 1891 - 332 pages
..." consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has...improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity." It is clear, then, that the newspaper proprietor must remain responsible...
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The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1

Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...Debates, vol. xzxvi. p. 507, 1802, pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the liberty of the Press. But if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity."1 This is tolerably wide, but other definitions are not much narrower....
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English ...

Charles John Smith - English language - 1893 - 796 pages
...esteem or general reputation of things that were never heard of." — Tatler. " Ever)- freeman hns ْy/ 7% ( * & . , n B:[ . L a-h N Q9Z.ϭ .&& R_ ǘ/ Y d˒ # ܆lC 㘀 wR 5f t = presa ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence...
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The American Federationist, Volume 20

Labor unions - 1913 - 830 pages
...the following quotation from Blackstone : "Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what matter he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to...improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 112

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 802 pages
...restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. He says: "Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what...improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licensor, as was...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England in One Volume Together with a Copious ...

William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...this consists in laying no previous restraint upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has...improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser as was...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 53

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1070 pages
...restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. He says: "Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what...improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licensor, as was...
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The Minnesota Law Journal, Volume 5

Law - 1897 - 260 pages
...for criminal matters when published. Justice Story (Const. Law, 1884) wrote: "Every freeman has the undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases...improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. * * * Thus, the will of the individual is left free, and the abuse...
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Blackstone's Commentaries Abridged

William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has...improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was...
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Records of the Cape Colony, from February 1793 to April 1831

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1900 - 542 pages
...publications; and not in the freedom from Censure, for criminal Matters, when published! Every free man has an undoubted Right, to lay what sentiments he pleases before the Public: but if he publishes, what is mischievous, or illegal, he must take the Consequences of his own temerity...
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