PRINTERS should have particular regard to the law relating to LIBEL, CONTEMPT OF COURT, and NEWSPAPERS, and also to the statutory requirements in the case of bills offering rewards. Reference can also usefully be made to the article on CUSTOM. The statute law directly relating to printers is mainly the old legislation expressly excepted from appeal by the Newspapers, Printers, and Reading Rooms Repeal Act, 1869. No part of that law extends, however, to any papers printed by the authority and for the use of either House of Parliament. Printers are required to carefully preserve and keep one copy (at least) of every paper they print, and to legibly write thereon the name and abode of their employer. There is a penalty of J220 for neglecting or refusing, within six months from the date of printing, to produce the copy to a justice of the peace. But this provision does not extend to the impression of any engraving, or to the printing of the name and address of any person and the articles in which he deals, or to papers for the sale of estates or goods by auction or otherwise. Prosecutions must be commenced within three months after the penalty is incurred, one half of the penalty going to the informer and the other half to the crown. The name and address of the printer are not required to be printed upon the following : bank-notes, bank post bills, bills of exchange, promissory notes, bonds or other securities for the payment of money, bills of lading, policies of insurance, letters of attorney, deeds, agreements, transfers, or assignments of stock in any public corporation or company, dividend warrants, receipts for money or goods, proceedings in a court, warrants, and orders, and other papers printed by the authority of a public board or public office in the execution of their duties. Subject to the foregoing, every person who prints a paper or book which is intended to be published or dispersed must legibly print his name and place of abode or business upon the front thereof, if it is printed on one side only, or upon the first or last leaf if it consists of more than one leaf. Any one who publishes or disperses, or assists in publishing
or dispersing a printed paper or book on which such name and address is not so printed, is liable to forfeit a sum of .V5 in respect of every copy. In the case of books or papers printed at the University Press of Oxford, or the Pitt Press of Cambridge, the printer, instead of printing his name thereon, must print the following words : " Printed at the University Press, Oxford," or " The Pitt Press, Cambridge," as the case may be. No actions for penalties can be commenced except in the name of the Attorney- or Solicitor General in England, or the King's Advocate in Scotland. With regard to printing for parliamentary elections, printers should note that every bill, placard, or poster having reference to an election must bear upon its face the name and address of its printer and publisher. Any person printing, publishing, or posting, or causing to i'.3e printed, published, or posted any such bill, placard, or poster not bearing the requisite name and address will, if he is the candidate or his election agent, be guilty of an illegal practice ; any other person is liable to a penalty of first duty of an executor is to duly prove his testator's will. This is done by bringing the will into the Probate Division of the High Court, and satisfying the Court that it is valid and sufficient. The Court has its principal registry at Somerset House, London, and District Registries in most of the important provincial towns, and it is in these registries that an executor obtains probate in cases where the registrar is satisfied that the will does not require a proof in solemn form, i.e. in open court, or where its validity is not contested. The great majority of wills are proved in the registries, without resort to open court. See EXECUTOR.
Instructions for obtaining Probate or Administration without employing a Solicitor.