Libel Act is a stock short title

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 which was formerly used for legislation

Legislation

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 relating to libel (including criminal libel

Criminal libel

Criminal libel is a legal term, of English origin, which may be used with one of two distinct meanings, in those common law jurisdictions where it is still used....

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The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Libel Bill during its passage through Parliament

Parliament

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Libel Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to libel.

United Kingdom

• The Libel Act 1792
  Libel Act 1792
  The Libel Act 1792 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. At the urging of the Whig politician Charles James Fox, the Act restored to juries the right to decide what was libel and whether a defendant was guilty, rather than leaving it solely to the judge...
  
    (32 Geo.3 c.60)
• The Criminal Libel Act 1819 (60 Geo.3 & 1 Geo.4 c.8)
• The Libel Act 1843
  Libel Act 1843
  The Libel Act 1843, commonly known as Lord Campbell's Libel Act, was a Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It enacted several important codifications of and modifications to the common law tort of libel....
  
   (6 & 7 Vict. c.96)
• The Libel Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.75)
• The Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c.60)
• The Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict c.64)