NOTE.

SOME of the citations from Starkie's Reports, in the earlier part of this work, are made from the Exeter edition of 1823, and the residue from the London edition of 1817-20. The editions of the principal elementary writers cited, where they are not otherwise expressed, are the following:

Alciati, Opera Omnia. Basileæ. 1582. 4 tom. fol.

Best on Presumptions. Lond. 1844.

Best Principles of Evidence. Lond. 1849.

Canciani, Leges Barbarorum Antiquæ.

Venetiis. 1781-1785. 5 vol. fol.

Carpzovii, Practice Rer. Crim. Francof. ad Mænum. 1758. 3 vol. fol. Corpus Juris Glossatum. Lugduni. 1627. 6 tom. fol.

Danty, Traité de la Preuve. Paris. 1697.

4to.

Everhardi Concilia. Ant. 1643. fol.
Farinacii Opera. Francof. ad Mænum.

1618-1686. 9 vol. fol.

Glassford on Evidence. Edinb. 1820.

Gresley on Evidence. Philad. 1837.

Joy on Confessions. Dublin. 1842.

Mascardus de Probationibus. Francof. ad Mænum. 1684. 4 vol. fol.
Mathews on Presumptive Evidence. New York. 1830.

Menochius de Presumptionibus. Genevæ. 1670. 2 tom. fol.
Mittermaier, Traité de la Preuve en Matière Criminelle.

Peake's Evidence, by Norris. Philad. 1824.

Phillips and Amos on Evidence. Lond. 1838. 8th ed.

Phillips on Evidence. Lond.

1843. 8th ed.

Pothier on Obligations, by Evans. Philad. 1826.

Russell on Crimes. 3d Amer. ed.

Paris. 1848.

Starkie on Evidence.

Stephen on Pleading.

Strykiorum, Opera.

6th Amer. ed. 2 vols.

Philad. 1824.

Francof. ad Mænum. 1743-1753. 15 vol. fol.

Tait on Evidence. Edinb. 1834.

Tidd's Practice. 9th Lond. ed.

Wigram on the Interpretation of Wills. 3d Lond. ed. 1840.

Wills on Circumstantial Evidence.

Lond. 1838.

OF THE RULES WHICH GOVERN THE PRODUCTION OF TESTIMONY.

Of the Testimony of Witnesses subsequently dead, absent, or

CHAPTER XIV.

Of the Number of Witnesses, and the Nature and Quantity of

Proof required in particular cases

SECTION

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CHAPTER XV.

Of the Admissibility of Parol or Verbal Evidence, to affect that

which is Written

PART III.

OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE.

CHAPTER I.

Of Witnesses, and the Means of procuring their Attendance

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