A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Volumen1Little, Brown,, 1866 - 675 páginas |
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... admission of the party , evi- dence of another verbal admission of the same fact is cumulative ; but evidence of ... admitted by most men solely on the moral evidence of general notoriety . For most men are neither able themselves to ...
... admission of the party , evi- dence of another verbal admission of the same fact is cumulative ; but evidence of ... admitted by most men solely on the moral evidence of general notoriety . For most men are neither able themselves to ...
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... admitted.1 So also the payment of money into court , under a rule for that purpose , in satisfaction of so much of the claim as the party admits to be due , is a conclusive admission of the character in which the plaintiff sues , and of ...
... admitted.1 So also the payment of money into court , under a rule for that purpose , in satisfaction of so much of the claim as the party admits to be due , is a conclusive admission of the character in which the plaintiff sues , and of ...
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... admission of such evidence unless it appears that the evidence so admitted was improperly applied in the decision of the case . ] 2 Infra , § 448. But counsel may , on erces - examination , inquire as to a fact apparently irrelevant ...
... admission of such evidence unless it appears that the evidence so admitted was improperly applied in the decision of the case . ] 2 Infra , § 448. But counsel may , on erces - examination , inquire as to a fact apparently irrelevant ...
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... admitted to show , that he had accepted other bills , drawn in like manner , before it was possible to have transmitted them from the place at which they bore date.1 So , in an indictment for knowingly uttering a forged document , or a ...
... admitted to show , that he had accepted other bills , drawn in like manner , before it was possible to have transmitted them from the place at which they bore date.1 So , in an indictment for knowingly uttering a forged document , or a ...
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... admitted . Cowen , J. , held , that the fraudulent intent was a necessary inference of law from the falsity of the representation ; and that the evidence of character was improperly ad- mitted . He proceeded to cite and con- demn the ...
... admitted . Cowen , J. , held , that the fraudulent intent was a necessary inference of law from the falsity of the representation ; and that the evidence of character was improperly ad- mitted . He proceeded to cite and con- demn the ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.