Fox’s Libel Act — Law Dictionary

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An act passed in England in 1792, which provided that in prosecutions for libel, the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put at issue upon the indictment, and should not be required by the court to find the defendant guilty merely upon proof of the publication of the alleged libel, in the sense ascribed to it in the indictment

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 60, which secured to juries, upon the trial of indictments 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 gulity on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to it In the Indictment. Wharton.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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.