Speech

A formal discourse in public. The liberty of speech is guaranteed to members of the legislature, in debate, and to counsel in court. The reduction of a speech to writing and its publication is a libel if the matter contained in it is libelous; and the repetition of it upon occasions not warranted by law, when the matter is slanderous, will be slander; and the character of the speaker will be no protection to him from an action; 1 Maule & S. 273; 1 Esp. 226. See Dedate; Liberty of Speech; Slander; Libel. with the duty imposed on her and to avoid collision with other vessels in the situations in which she may reasonably expect to find them; The Luckenbach, 50 Fed. 129, 1 C. O. A. 489, 8 U. S. App. 9. In a fog a vessel is bound to observe unusual caution and to maintain only such rate of speed as will enable her to come to a standstill by reversing her engines at full speed, before she shall collide with a vessel which she may see; The Laurence, 54 Fed. 542, 4 C. C. A. 501, 8 U. S. App. 312. A vessel running fifteen knots an hour, when she strikes a fog bank, has not complied with the statutory requirements to go at moderate speed; The Saale, 63 Fed. 478, 11 C. C. A. 302, 26 U. S. App. 164. Charter authority to enact and enforce such local, police, sanitary and other regulations as do not conflict with general laws, empowers a municipality to require railroads running through its limits to adopt such precautions as to speed of trains as may be needed for the safety of the public; Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co. v. Com., 126 Ky. 712, 104 S. W. 771, 17 L. R. A. (N. S.) 561. This extends to interstate trains in the absence of congressional action; Erb v. Morasch, 177 U. S. 584, 20 Sup. Ct. 819, 44 L. Ed. 897. An ordinance limiting the speed of trains on an interstate railway which carries United States mail, to 10 miles an hour within a city, is not void as imposing an unreasonable restriction upon interstate commerce and the speedy transportation of the mail; Peterson v. State, 79 Neb. 132, 112 N. W. 306, 14

A writ of entry causa mairimontt praloguuté lies where lands or tenements are givento a man upon condition that he shall take the donor to be his wife within a certain time, and he does not espouse her ae within the said term, or espouses another woman, or makes himself priest. Termes de la Ley.

See Liberty, 1. Of speech; Slander.