The plaintiff complained of the words ‘Sir Thomas Holt struck his cook on the head with a cleaver, and cleaved his head; the one part lay on the one shoulder and the other on the other’.
Held: It was moved in arrest of judgement that the words were not actionable, because it was not averred that the cook was killed, but argumentative.
(1608) Cro Jac 184
England and Wales
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