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Maclean & Robinson's Appeal Cases Cited authorities 6 Cited in Precedent Map Related
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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1792
Date01 January 1792
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 79 E.R. 1046

King's Bench Division

Anonymous

1046 MICHAELMAS TEEM, 14 CAR. 1. IN B. R. CRO. CAB. 816. [516] case 15. anonymous. To call an attorney a base rogue and a cheating knave is actionable. Ante, 229. 417. 460. 510. Post. 552. 1 Eoll. Ab. 52. Cro. Jac. 339. 427. 586. Moor. 61. 855. Allen, 13. Hob. 9. Godb. 214. Latch. 21. 1 Brownl. 16. 1 Vent. 117. Hutt. 104. Lev. 70. 1 Mod. 272. 1 Lev. 297. 1 Sid. 327. 3 Wila. 59. Stra. 1138. Error of a judgment in the Common Pleas in an action for words. Whereas the plaintiff being an attorney, and maintaining himself his wife and children by his practice, that the defendant spake these words of him and of his office : " He is a very base rogue, and a cheating knave, and doth maintain himself his wife and children by his cheating." Upon not guilty pleaded, and verdict for the plaintiff, and judgment given, the error assigned was, that an action lay not for these words.-But all the Court held, that the action was maintainable ; for it toucheth him in his profession. Whereupon judgment was affirmed.

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