Fox’s Libel Act
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 60, which secured to juries, upon the trial of indietments for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilly or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and no longer to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to lt {n the indictment.
Wharton.