Word: libellous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These measures failing, the Knights agreed to prosecute certain men and organizations responsible. Last week two actions for criminal libel resulted in the conviction of a Savannah evangelist and the indictment of a Christian minister in New Jersey...
...death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great courage, and against the.advice of his councillors, downed this libel, once and for all, with a solemn public affirmation that he had never been married to anyone except...
...libellant based its argument on the following points: 1. The libellant has sufficiently shown a presently existing marriage to sustain an action for divorce in this court. 2. The pendency of the suit for divorce brought by the libellant against the respondent in 1925 does not bar this action. 3. The proper interpretation of the divorce statute of this jurisdiction of the facts found by the Mater's Report demand that the libellant be granted a divorce on the ground of desertion. 4. The respondent is not entitled to the divorce which she seeks in her cross-libel...
...York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled...
William Evans, publisher of the Valley Vigilant, weekly newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was sentenced last week to three months in the county jail, fined $100. His offense: criminal libel of a County Commissioner during a political campaign. Libel convictions are rare...