Law of the Press : A Digest of the Law Affecting Newspapers in England, India, and the Colonies: With a Chapter on Foreign Press Codes eBook free download. Get this from a library! The law of the press: a digest of the law affecting newspapers in England, India, and the colonies. With a chapter on foreign press codes. [Joseph R Fisher; J Andrew Strahan] Speaking of the English law, the court observed: "It is quite evident that there would probably be no precedents of cumulative punishments, each to the full measure allowed law, as they were imposed in the case before us. The reason is obvious. In England the punishment for misdemeanors is, as a general rule, discretionary with the court. taxed/ required american's to use "stamped" printer matter and legal documents in the colonies such as newspapers, pamphlets, bonds, licenses, diplomas, or even playing cards - most disliked the colonists - was Britain's first really serious attempt to assert governmental control over the colonies Some of the socially and politically minded publications deal with questions of slavery, liberty of the press, and accounts of trials. There are also a number of the pamphlets that speak to the foreign relations of England, the American rebellion, the union treaty, and the revolution in France. Burkitt, LL and Gourley, CJP and Sale, PWG, Temporal changes in Olsen phosphorus concentrations when P fertiliser rates were applied to nine different soil types of varying phosphorus buffering capacity, Proceedings of the International Phosphorus Transfer Workshop, 2001, Plymouth, England, pp. 30. (2001) [Conference Extract] Press Freedoms in the American Colonies, 1755-1765: The Public and the Printers Gigi Alford, University of Alabama