Section 381 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Protection of innocent sellers of books and newspapers

The sale by any person of any book, pamphlet, or other printed or written matter, or of any number or part of any periodical, is not a publication thereof for the purposes of this Chapter, unless such person knows that such book, pamphlet, printed or written matter, or number or part, contains defamatory matter; or, in the case of any part or number of any periodical, that such periodical habitually contains defamatory matter.

Section 381 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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