Word: disclaimer
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...publishers of the new illustrated periodical, Life, it seems tous, display an undue and over-zealous eagerness to disclaim for their paper any tinge of college tone or influence. Without discussing whether or not such an influence would be after all so terrible a thing as it is painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion...
...that an ordinary journal does. Suppose the Boston Advertiser were to adopt this convenient rule. In that case it would be possible for the paper to print the most scurrilous articles in any columns but those devoted to editorials, and when called upon for satisfaction the editor could calmly disclaim all responsibility on the ground that the article was contributed. Imagine such a plea being advanced in a court-room in a libel case. The editor would be laughed out of court...