Meanings of blasphemous libel in English

Mr English said New Zealanders would be taken aback if police investigated somebody here for blasphemous libel.

The theological review elsewhere mentioned attributes the pamphlet of John Search on blasphemous libel to Lord Brougham.

They therefore cited Mr. Seymour before the Justices of the Peace, and charged him with publishing a blasphemous libel.

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern tonight defended plans to introduce a new crime of blasphemous libel in an amendment to the Defamation Bill.

What Lord Coleridge read from Starkie as the law of blasphemous libel, I regard with Sir James Stephen as "flabby verbiage."

Last month, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern announced plans to introduce a new crime of blasphemous libel in an amendment to the Defamation Bill.

The Government, frightened and vindictive, was multiplying trials for treason and blasphemous libel, and Shelley feared he might be put in the pillory himself.

It also repeals the law of blasphemous libel, which could see someone thrown in jail for a year for saying bad things about God.

The world, she observed, was overflowing with blasphemous libels, calumnies, scandalous pamphlets; for never had the professors of the Christian religion.