A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Volume 1 |
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... applied by the most accu- rate logicians , to the effect of evidence , and not to the medium by which truth is established.2 None but mathematical truth is susceptible of that high degree of evidence , called demonstration , which ...
... applied by the most accu- rate logicians , to the effect of evidence , and not to the medium by which truth is established.2 None but mathematical truth is susceptible of that high degree of evidence , called demonstration , which ...
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... applied by the law of nations . 32. These presumptions founded more upon policy than probability . 33. Disputable presumptions good until disproved . 34. These depend upon common experience , and are referable to the jury , where any ...
... applied by the law of nations . 32. These presumptions founded more upon policy than probability . 33. Disputable presumptions good until disproved . 34. These depend upon common experience , and are referable to the jury , where any ...
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... applied to other subjects . Thus , where an authority is given by law to executors , administrators , guardians , or other officers to make sales of lands , upon being duly licensed by the courts , and they are required to advertise the ...
... applied to other subjects . Thus , where an authority is given by law to executors , administrators , guardians , or other officers to make sales of lands , upon being duly licensed by the courts , and they are required to advertise the ...
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... applied in the case of a lease already expired ; provided the tenant has either quitted the possession , or has submitted to the title of a new landlord ; 2 nor is it applied to the case of a tenant , who has been ousted or evicted by a ...
... applied in the case of a lease already expired ; provided the tenant has either quitted the possession , or has submitted to the title of a new landlord ; 2 nor is it applied to the case of a tenant , who has been ousted or evicted by a ...
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... applied for letters of administration , as next of kin ; which was resisted by the maternal uncle of the daughter , who claimed the effects upon the presumption of the Roman law , that she was the survivor . But this point was not ...
... applied for letters of administration , as next of kin ; which was resisted by the maternal uncle of the daughter , who claimed the effects upon the presumption of the Roman law , that she was the survivor . But this point was not ...
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Page 548 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 181 - Eyre to be this, — that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth.
Page 324 - ... insensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, a court of law may look into the extrinsic circumstances of the case to see whether the meaning of the words be sensible in any popular or secondary sense, of which with reference to these circumstances, they are capable.
Page 39 - Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person; but, in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse.
Page 296 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Page 493 - By means of it, the situation of the witness with respect to the parties and to the subject of litigation, his interest, his motives, his inclination and prejudices, his means of obtaining a correct and certain knowledge of the facts to which he bears testimony...
Page 281 - A clergyman or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him in his professional character in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs.
Page 58 - It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the Court.
Page 312 - When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking was reduced to writing...
Page 329 - Now, there is but one case in which it appears to us that this sort of evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise is, on the face of it, perfect and intelligible, but, from some of the circumstances admitted in proof, an ambiguity arises, as to which of the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express.