How have courts interpreted the meaning of words in a libel case?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stelzer v. Domm, 1932 CanLII 197 (SK CA):
Coleridge, C.J., in Gibson v. Bvans (1889) 23 Q.B.D. 384, at 386, 58 L.J.Q.B. 612, made a similar statement during the course of the argument in that case, as follows: It does not signify what the writer meant; the question is whether the alleged libel was so published by the defendant that the world would apply it to the plaintiff.
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