A Manual of the Indian Penal Code (as Amended up to Date)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Mrs. Radhabai Atmaram Sagoon Subjects: Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CpoVcn defamation might to be punished even more severely than written l'-i. uiu- lion, as having that tendency in a higher degree. A person who reads in a pamphlet a calumnious reflection on himself, or on some one for whom he is interested, is less likely to take a violent revenge than a person who hears the same calumnious reflection uttered. Public men who have, by long habit, become callous to slander and abuse in a printed form, often show acute sensibility to imputations thrown on them to their faces. Indeed, defamatory words, spoken in the presence of the person who i the object of them, necessarily have more of the character of a personal affront, and are, therefore, more likely to cause a breach of the peace than any printed libel. In English Law, the distinction between written and spoken defamation is generally defended on the ground that written defamation is likely to be more widely spread, and to become more permanent, than spoken defamation. These considerations do not appear to us entitled to much weight (Note. R. 6, 7.). Hence, nndar the Code any disparaging remark or sarcasm may be made the subject of an indictment. Mayne aptly says "if the law of defamation as laid down in this Code were to be carried out, the whole population of India would appear monthly at the dock." According to English Law, libels upon a body of men were indictable where they applied to t...