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Then Roosevelt addressed the court and asked it not to impose damages upon the defendant, as he had not prosecuted the libeler with the intention of getting satisfaction in money.

But his part as a "rewarder and encourager" of Callender, "a libeler whom you could not but detest and despise," she could not and would not forget.

He became a devotee of those ritualized quarrels known as "affairs of honor," in which the aggrieved party demanded "satisfaction" - an apology or explanation - from the libeler and implicitly threatened a duel otherwise.

He, Adams, had been held up to ridicule in one newspaper after another for his meanness (the New Haven Gazette had called him an "unprincipled libeler"), his love of monarchy, his antipathy to freedom.

He was again prosecuted, and was sentenced to lose what remained of his ears; to pay a fine of L5,000; to be branded on both his cheeks with the letters S. L. (for Seditious Libeler), and to remain in prison for life.

The whale was killed by the libellant (plaintiff) Ghen's bomb lance.

The libel must be verified by the libellant, as the complainant is called, or the complainant's agent if the complainant is without the jurisdiction.

Then is it any answer that the libeller is a member of the corporate body?

In this spiritual retreat, let the noble libeller remain.

After his flight he was presented by the grand juries of the county and city of Dublin as a common libeller.

I shall expect you, and your client, to appear for talks whether you fetch along that drunken libeller or not."

He did not; he merely vapoured, and challenged the libeller to the duel.

The charges against Browne were disproved, and he won favour with the miners by magnanimously interceding with the judge for a light punishment of his libeller.

The victim, of course, is permitted to seek rehabilitation through damages in a civil action at the same time as the libeller faces retribution in the criminal courts.

These views excited great indignation in the Abbé Vertot, who denounced Freret to the government as a libeller of the monarchy.

At the proposal of Chief-justice John Finch he was also to be branded on the cheeks with the letters S. L., signifying 'seditious libeller'.

When the press is sued over a reported quotation, it may obtain some relief by joining the speaker as co-defendant thereby making the real libeller liable to contribute to costs and damages.

Prynne reinterpreted the "SL" ("Seditious Libeller") branded on his forehead as "Stigmata Laudis".

(The Roman Catholic sympathiser and antiquary Anthony Wood, a man of "uncouth manners" and a condemned libeller, described him as "foul-mouthed Bale" a century afterwards.)

This time, Star Chamber ordered that the rest of Prynne's ears be cut off, and that he should be branded with the letters S L for "seditious libeller".

These were attacked in Dr. Alexander Monro's Apology for the Clergy of Scotland, and The Spirit of Calumny and Slander examined, chastised, and exposed, in a letter to a malicious libeller.

Once a claimant has shown that the words in question are likely to provoke hatred, ridicule or contempt, the alleged libeller has to prove that what he or she has written is true or a fair comment based on true information.

"Besides Abingdon Hall and the lands worth £400 per annum, he hath bought a good pennyworth of bishops' lands", says a contemporary libeller, and in one of his speeches he refers to an investment of £8,000 in such property.

Macedo founded and wrote for a large number of journals, and the tone and temper of these and his political pamphlets induced his leading biographer to name him the chief libeller of Portugal, though at the time his jocular and satirical style gained him popular favor.

Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud.

Beresford wrote to Fitzwilliam on 22 June that his character had been unjustly attacked: "Direct and specific charges I could fairly have met and refuted, but crooked and undefined insinuations against private character, through the pretext of official discussion, your Lordship must allow, are the weapons of a libeller".