Icon Definitions:

Text match Text match
Confers power Confers power
Blanket amendment Blanket amendment

Welcome to the Revised Statutes of the UK on SLD

This item of legislation is displayed as if you had made a search for a version current at today’s date and applicable to the widest possible geographical extent (that is, anywhere in the UK). If you wish to specify any other search criteria, please use the Advanced search facility. The page you are currently viewing is usually referred to on SLD as the ‘Results within Legislation’ page
(Entries appearing indented and in square brackets indicates provisions for which no version matched the presumed search criteria)

Help - Opening and Viewing Legislation
        Libel Act 1792 (c.60)
        Introductory Text
        Main body
        [1.] On the trial of an indictment for a libel, the jury may give a general verdict upon the whole matter put in issue, and shall not be required by the court to find the defendant guilty merely on proof of the publication, and of the sense ascribed to it in the information.
        2. But the court shall give their opinion and directions on the matter in issue as in other criminal cases.
        3. Jury may find a special verdict.
        4. Defendants may move in arrest of judgement, as before passing this Act.

  © Crown Copyright Back to top