State v. Mott’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Therefore, in an indictment for libel by the publication of words, not libelous in themselves, or not of themselves pointing at the person alleged to be injured, the settled and well-recognized practice has been to aver the facts requisite to be connected with the words, to show their defamatory character, by way of inducement in a prefatory statement; to declare, by a colloquium, if necessary, that the publication was of and concerning the person alleged to be injured, and then to point the meaning of the words by innuendoes, the function of which is, as was said by Lord Mansfield, `by reference to preceding matter, to fix more precisely the meaning of it.' Rex v. Aylett, 1 T.R. 63.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 86 N.J. Super. 217 - State v. Browne