 | District of Columbia - 1857 - 788 Seiten
...imposed, unless the same be expressly mentioned tobeinliea of such damages. SEC. 7. All words which from their usual construction and common acceptation...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, shall be actionable. SEC. 8. Any court in which is pending any case wherein for more than seven years... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 Seiten
...wilfully opened i In Virginia, all words which from thcir usual construction and common acceptation arc construed as insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, are made actionable ; and no demurrer shall preclude a jury from passing thereon. Code of Va. ch. 148.... | |
 | James Kent - 1860 - 748 Seiten
...and unauthorized publication of any part of a letter, wilfully opened 1 In Virginia, all words which from their usual construction and common acceptation...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, are made actionable ; and no demurrer shall preclude a jury from passing thercon. Code of Va. ch. 148.... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1876 - 686 Seiten
...Virginia the embarrassment, such as it is, is removed by a statute which declares that all words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation,...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, shall be actionable ; and no demurrer shall preclude a i'ury from passing thereon. (VC 1873, c. 145,... | |
 | 1887 - 972 Seiten
...not believe the plaintiff on oath, etc., were false and libelous, and are such words as are usually construed as insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace. The defendant demurred to the declaration, and also pleaded not guilty, and it was agreed that any... | |
 | Martin L. Newell - 1898 - 1136 Seiten
...Mich., 471. C. Under code of Virginia, 1873, chapter 145, section 2, providing that " all words which from their usual construction and common acceptation...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace, shall be actionable," a letter sent to a neighbor's wife, falsely intimating that she has invited the... | |
 | 1901 - 928 Seiten
...the plaintiff given In that case. a. Same— Statutory— Declaration,— in an action of slander, if the plaintiff proceeds under the statute, he must...denote that the words are actionable under the statute. 3. Same— Same— Same. t— Where the declaration does not show by the proper averments, that the... | |
 | 1902 - 796 Seiten
...for such insulting words as were not actionable at common law. They provide that "All words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation,...insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace, shal be actionable. No demurrer shall preclude a jury from passing thereon." Va. Code 1887, sec. 2897;... | |
 | 1904 - 1060 Seiten
...defendant. Nor Is it good under section 2897 of the Code of 1887, which provides that all words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are construed as insults, and tend to violence aud broach of the peace, shall be actionable. In Hogan v. Wilmoth, 16 Grat 80, It Is said that, if... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1907 - 888 Seiten
...and libelous, and then, referring to the objectionable words therein, avers that they are such as, from their usual construction and common acceptation,...insults, and tend to violence and breach of the peace; by reason whereof, it concludes, the plaintiff has been greatly injured, etc. This undoubtedly is a... | |
| |
... their usual construction and common acceptation are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace... 
