case leycroft against dunker easter term car roll word import slander in the  time pass as he come a break merchant from hamburg be actionable ante S C  Jones SC hut cro James Yelv Com dig term Rep action for word whereas the  plaintiff for twenty year have use the trade of merchant and yet use the same  and in the fifteen year of king James use the say trade and go to hamburg and  there use it until James and then return to England and use the trade of a  merchant the defendant to scandalize he in his profession speak these word of  the plaintiff the first of October car he come a break merchant from hamburg  innuendo at his return from hamburg into England and that I will justify the  defendant plead not guilty and find against he and damage l Grimston move in  arrest of judgement that these word be not actionable for although it be to be  agree for say of a merchant that he be break in the present tense a action lie  for it be all one as if he have say he be a bankrupt which be a great  discredit to a merchant yet when he say that he come over a break merchant  from hamburg it do not import in itself any scandal for he show that he come  over eight year before and be may become a rich man and of good credit since  that time Richardson chief justice be of that opinion for slander ought to be  express and not take by intendment or implication therefore if one say of a  merchant that he be a poor man within this seven year or of a workman that he  be a weak workman and have little skill within these few year a action lie not  for he may be rich or a good workman at the time of the speak but Jones  Berkley and myself hold that the action well lie and it be not like the case  before put for there they do not charge he with any crime and by intendment it  may have good construction but here he charge he with be once break croak car  et who semel evil always to take before be evil eoden noble birth or at least  may have a inclination thereto a and it be allege to be speak falsely et  wickedly and to scandalize he in his profession it be a great cause of  discredit and impair he in his trade whereas their credit be the principal  mean of their gain and if he intend it otherwise or have speak it in another  sense he ought to have show it by special plea which will have excuse he but  when he be a say vide Carslake v maple Durham term Rep p croak car er p charge  with malicious speak of those word and with a intent to discredit he and he  plead not guilty and find against he that he speak malicious and with intent  to discredit he the court man not otherwise adjudge wherefore it be adjudge  for the plaintiff