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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

St. 52 Geo. III. c.

60, which secured to juries, upon the trial of indictments or informations for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and no longer bound them to find a verdict of guilty on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to it in the indictment. FOY (Law Ft.) Faith; fidelity.

Brltt. 29; Oath. Britt. 70.

FRACTIO (Lat. from frangere, to break). A breaking; a breach. Fractio fedei, a breach of promise or of trust.

1 Rep. Ch. Append. 8.