Court Opinion

ID: 3669192
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:18:15.772001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:08:50.597089
License: Public Domain

I confess that when words are dubious, they shall be taken in mitiorisensu. As if one says: I. S. hath the pox, it shall be understood thesmallpox; but as to words in which there is a strong presumption that the party intended a scandal, the action lies; and thus it was *Page 632 
adjudged in this Court, in Sydnam's case, that an action lies for these words, I. S. is laid of the pox. Quod nota. Here there is a strong presumption that the defendant intended to scandalize Sir Simon Clark.