“Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.”

— Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

King v. Hunt (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 100.

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