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LIBEL ACT 1843 - SECT 9

Interpretation of Act.

9. Wherever throughout this Act, in describing the plaintiff or the defendant,
or the party affected or intended to be affected by the offence, words are
used importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, yet they
shall be understood to include several persons as well as one person, and
females as well as males, unless when the nature of the provision or the
context of the Act shall exclude such construction.



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