 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and...having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...ought to be received with, great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and...also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning, or the witness may have misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also, that...statement completely at variance with what the party actually said (m). But where the admission is (e) Skaife ยป. Jackson, 3 B. & C. 421 ; Farrar c. Hutchinson,... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed,...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party did say. The zeal too which so... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...being misinformed, or not havini clearly expressed his own meaning or the witness having understood him. It frequently happens also that the witness,...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party did say. The zeal too which <n... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 816 pages
...as it does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection and...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection and...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning, or the witness may have misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also, that...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really uaed, gives an effect to the statement completely at variance with what the party actually said. But... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...ought to be received teith great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in mere repetitions of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and...statement completely at variance with what the party actually did say. But where the admission is deliberately made, and precisely identified, the evidence... | |
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With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral -statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself... 
