A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Volume 1 |
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... objection that the court may require instruction upon the point , themselves . They will make inquiries , at the proper place for acquiring infor- mation . For this purpose in one case the Vice - Chancellor made inquiries at the Foreign ...
... objection that the court may require instruction upon the point , themselves . They will make inquiries , at the proper place for acquiring infor- mation . For this purpose in one case the Vice - Chancellor made inquiries at the Foreign ...
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... objected , that men may be influenced by moral or politi- cal considerations to speak truth , and , therefore , that their doing so is no proof of such an original principle as we have mentioned ; I answer , first , that moral or ...
... objected , that men may be influenced by moral or politi- cal considerations to speak truth , and , therefore , that their doing so is no proof of such an original principle as we have mentioned ; I answer , first , that moral or ...
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... in Mercer v . Sparks , Owen , 51 ; Noy , 35. The objection there was , that the words were not charged to have bean spoken maliciously , but the court jury are no more judges of the law in a CHAP . IV . ] 39 PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE .
... in Mercer v . Sparks , Owen , 51 ; Noy , 35. The objection there was , that the words were not charged to have bean spoken maliciously , but the court jury are no more judges of the law in a CHAP . IV . ] 39 PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE .
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... objection , the evidence objected to must , of necessity , be read or heard by the judge , in order to determine its character and value . In such cases , the only question , in effect , is upon the sufficiency and weight of the ...
... objection , the evidence objected to must , of necessity , be read or heard by the judge , in order to determine its character and value . In such cases , the only question , in effect , is upon the sufficiency and weight of the ...
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... objection to this view of the duties of jurors , that they are not amenable to any legal prosecution for a wrong decision in any matter of law ; it may arise from an honest mistake of judgment , in their apprehension of the rules and ...
... objection to this view of the duties of jurors , that they are not amenable to any legal prosecution for a wrong decision in any matter of law ; it may arise from an honest mistake of judgment , in their apprehension of the rules and ...
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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.