Fox's Act
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.