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Jury Nullification Appendix

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Appendix to

Andrew Otis, “Guilty of Publishing Only”: Jury Nullification as a Legal Defense in the Eighteenth Century, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LIII: 2 (Autumn, 2022), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01834.


State libel jury trials appearing in English Reports, Howell’s State Trials, Hyde’s Notebooks, Mansfield Manuscripts, and other sources between Lord Chief Justice of England John Holt’s modification of seditious libel precedent in 1699 and Fox’s Libel Act of 1792 (32 Geo. III c. 60). 

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