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LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.

Legal Term: LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
Definition: The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives, and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. 394.

2. This right is secured by the constitution of the United States. Amendments, art. 1. The abuse of the right is punished criminally, by indictment; civilly, by action. Vide Judge Cooper s Treatise on the Law of Libel, aud the Liberty of the Press, passim; and article Libel.





***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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