II. PLEADINGS, ETC., IN THE COUNTY COURT. 67. Statement of the Plaintiff's Cause of Action in a remitted Action. III. PLEADINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES. 69. Information for a Libel on a Private Individual. (R. v. Newman.) 72. Ex officio Information for a Seditious Libel. (R. v. Horne.) 73. Indictment for a Blasphemous Libel. 77. Indictment for a Libel on a Private Individual at Common Law. 78. Indictment for a Libel on a Dead Man. 79. Indictment under s. 4 of Lord Campbell's Act. 80. Indictment under s. 5 of Lord Campbell's Act. 81. Demurrer to an Indictment or Information. 83. Pleas to an Indictment. (R. v. Niblett.) 1. The male defendant is a gentleman residing at Hall, near Evesham in the county of Worcester, and the female defendant is his wife. The plaintiff is a domestic servant, and was from June 4th, 1902, to August 31st, 1903, in the service of the defendants in that capacity. 2. On September 15th, 1903, the female defendant falsely and maliciously wrote and published of the plaintiff and of her as a domestic servant, in a letter of that date sent by the defendants to Mrs. M., of 19, Newhall Street, Birmingham, the following words: "While she (meaning the plaintiff) was with us, she stole a quantity of house-linen, and pawned it in the High Street." * The plaintiff claims damages. [Signed] No. 2. Words in a Foreign Language. 1. The plaintiff is a farmer residing at Glamorgan. in the county of 2. On March 20th, 1895, the defendant falsely and maliciously printed and published of the plaintiff in the Welsh language in a newspaper called the Welsh Journal the following words: [Here set out the libel verbatim in Welsh.] [If no innuendo is necessary] 3. The said words mean in English, and were understood by those to whom they were published to mean:-[Here set out the translation.] [Or, if an innuendo is necessary] 3. The following is a literal translation of the said words :"He is a devil of a shaved pig." The said words mean and were understood by those who read them to mean that the plaintiff was insolvent and had been stripped of his last penny and was unable to pay his just debts and was a person of no credit and unworthy of trust or confidence. 4. The plaintiff has thereby suffered damage and has been greatly injured in his credit and reputation. The plaintiff claims damages. No. 3. Libel contained in a Placard. 1. The plaintiff is, &c. 2. The defendant on or about January 10th, 1895, falsely and maliciously caused to be printed and published of the plaintiff the words following:-[Here set out the words with innuendo if one is necessary.] PARTICULARS. The best particulars which the plaintiff can at this stage give are as follows:-(a) The said words were contained in placards one of which was posted up opposite the plaintiff 's shop in the High Street,; (b) Others were posted up in the neighbourhood of his shop [state exactly where if possible]. The said words were also by some persons unknown to the plaintiff widely distributed to the public in the town of in the form of handbills. 3. The plaintiff has in consequence suffered much annoyance, and has been injured in his credit and good name, and has incurred public odium, ridicule and contempt. The plaintiff claims damages. No. 4. Action for Reading a Libel aloud. M. AND WIFE v. N. AND WIFE. 1. The plaintiff Henry is the husband of the plaintiff Mary. They reside in Dover and have one child, a little girl, eight years old. 2. On November 8th, 1894, the following anonymous letter appeared in the "Dover Express": [The letter described a brutal assault on a child by a tipsy woman, who was not in any way identified.] 3. On the same day the female defendant read the said letter aloud to Mrs. M., the mother of the plaintiff Henry, and then falsely and maliciously spoke and published to her of the plaintiff Mary the following words :-"The woman referred to in that letter is Henry's wife"; meaning thereby that the plaintiff Mary was a drunken and violent woman, and had cruelly and brutally assaulted and ill-treated her own child, and that she had been drunk in one of the public streets of Dover. 4. Alternatively, the female defendant on November 8th, 1894, falsely and maliciously published of the plaintiff Mary the libellous words set out in paragraph 2 above, by showing them to the said Mrs. M. and reading them aloud to her, and verbally representing to her that the woman therein referred to was the plaintiff Mary and thereby conveyed the meanings in the last paragraph alleged. The plaintiffs claim damages. No. 5. Showing an Anonymous Letter-Special Damage. 1. The plaintiff carries on business as a merchant at Street, in the City of London. The defendant is the general manager of the London and Yorkshire Bank (Limited). 2. Prior to the publication hereinafter complained of one J. H., also a merchant, by a letter dated the 20th May, 1902, offered to take the plaintiff into his employment as manager of the business of the said J. H. at a salary of £1,000 a year. 3. On the 31st May, 1902, the said J. H. called upon the defendant, and the the defendant then falsely and maliciously published to the said J. H. the following letter concerning the plaintiff : [Here copy letter.] 4. In consequence of such publication the said J. H., by a letter to the plaintiff dated the 2nd June, 1902, refused to take the plaintiff into his employment as he would otherwise have done, and the plaintiff has lost the benefit of such employment and the said salary, and has been much injured in his credit and reputation. The plaintiff claims damages. [See Robshaw v. Smith, 38 L. T. 423; ante, pp. 241, 242.] No. 6. Libel on a Town Clerk. 1. The plaintiff has been for thirty-three years town clerk of the parliamentary and municipal borough of in the county of -, and has for many years practised as a solicitor within the said borough, and held various appointments therein. 2. The defendant is a member of the town council of the said borough. 3. The " Gazette," is a weekly newspaper which has a large circulation in the said borough. 4. The defendant falsely and maliciously wrote and caused to be printed and published in the issue of the said newspaper of the 12th October, 1904, of the plaintiff in respect of his said office of town clerk the following words:-[here set out the libel verbatim]; meaning thereby that the plaintiff had been guilty of gross misconduct in the discharge of his official duties, and had acted as such town clerk in a manner which was unjustifiable and discreditable to him, and had not been neutral, impartial, and without respect of person or party in the discharge of his said duties, but had been actuated by improper, partial, and corrupt motives therein, and had forfeited and deserved to forfeit the respect, confidence, and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. The plaintiff claims damages. No. 7. Action by a Solicitor-Injunction. 1. The plaintiff is a solicitor and the senior partner in the firm of W., G. & T., which carries on an extensive practice as solicitors in the county of He is also election agent for the Conservative |