A treatise on the law of verbal injuries as applied in Scotland in the prosecution of those public crimes, & private offences, which arise from libel and slander
Subtitle: To which is added an appendix containing reports of several cases respecting defamation which have not been hitherto collected
By: By John Borthwick, Esq. advocate
Published: 1811
Language: eng
Subjects: Libel and slander
Other titles: Borthwick on libel; Treatise on the law of libel and slander as applied in Scotland, in criminal prosecutions and in actions of damages; Notes on Scotch law of libel & slander.
Description: Volume 1 is an intermediate draft of Borthwick's book "A treatise on the law of libel and slander as applied in Scotland, in criminal prosecutions and in actions of damages" published in Edinburgh in 1826. Volume 2 titled "Notes on Scotch law of libel & slander" is a compilation of notes dating to 1811; also includes printed and manuscript copies of cour records, notes, clippings, opinions, passages copied from treatises and letters from lawyers and judges in response to questions on legal points.
Notes: HLS MS 4519, Harvard Law School Library.

"Borthwick" in manuscript on front pastedown of vol. 2