Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Slander and Libel, Vol. 1: And Incidentally of Malicious Prosecutions In the case of the King r. Dodd, 2 Sess. 33, on an information for selling and publishing a libel against Chambers, it was insisted upon, for the defendant, that she was sick, and that the libel was taken into her house without her knowledge. But, by the court, this is no excuse, and the law presumes her to be acquainted with what her servant does. Mr. J. Fortescue said, that it had been ruled, that the finding a libel on a bookseller's shelf was a publication of it by the book seller. And L. C. J. Raymond said, it hath been ruled that where a master being out of town, his trade is carried on by his servant, the master shall be chargeable with the servant's publishing a libel in his absence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.