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Page 201 - ... or, by leave of the judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony ; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Orders in Council and Proclamations |
| Author | Nigeria, Northern. Compilations |
| Publisher | Stevens, 1905 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2007 |
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