[PDF] Reports Of A Portion Of The Decisions Rendered By The Supreme Court Of The Hawaiian Islands In Law Equity Admiralty And Probate eBook

Author : Robert G. Davis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781334603228

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Excerpt from Reports of a Portion of the Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court, of the Hawaiian Islands, in Law, Equity, Admiralty, and Probate, 1857-1865, Vol. 2: Hawaiian Reports Page 104 - 26th line, his nation, instead of this nation. Page 594 - 27th line, proposition, instead of proportion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
Publisher : General Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2012-02
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ISBN : 9781458968715

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The alleged defamatory words taken from the declaration and omitting the inuendoes are as follows: Gomez and his dope. The Portuguese jeweler arrested with opium in his possession. J. E. Gomez, the jeweler, was arrested last evening and charged with having opium in his possession. He was afterwards released on bail. The arrest was made in the house of a half-Chinaman named Apio, in Nuuanu Valley. Gomez had made a contract with another Chinaman to sell him thirty tins of the drug. The Chinaman had been furnished with money to buy it, and last night was the date set for completing the transaction. Just as Gomez was about to pass over the opium, the police descended and raked the whole party in. The declaration did not allege special damages, the plaintiff relying upon his position that the words of the alleged publication were libelous per se. At the close of the plaintiff's case, defendants' counsel asked that the plaintiff be non-suited on the ground that the article in question did not contain words libelous (actionable) per se, and in such case the special damages must be proved, and none had been proved. The Court overruled the motion and the case proceeded. Are the words in the publication libelous in themselves? The law applicable to libel is a creature of growth, derived from English and American judicial precedents through a long period of time. AVe have no statutory enactments denning the law applicable to civil suits for damage for defamatory words, either spoken or written, and we must resort to the principles laid down by judges and jurists under the common law. The defamatory matter in question comes within that class which affects private persons and which imputes to a person the commission of a crime. Newell on Defamation, etc., p. 67. Or as Starki...

Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
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ISBN : 9781344130592

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