 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1815 - 600 páginas
...Principle. HP HE second ground of incompetency, which has been mentioned, is defect of religious principle. All witnesses, before they are examined, are required...sufficient, that a witness believes himself bound to speak truth from a regard to character or the common interests of society, ciety, or from fear of punishment... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1820 - 838 páginas
...Principle. THE second ground of incompetcncy, which has been mentioned, is defect of religious principle. All witnesses, before they are examined, are required...take an oath, by which they appeal to the Supreme (a) It is is raid, thnt It if not a legal exception to a witaes', that be is an alien, a villein, or... | |
 | 1830 - 446 páginas
...likewise, is drawn from the oath administered. 'All witnesses before they are examined, are called to take an oath, by which they appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of their assertions, and imprecate Divine vengeance on themselves if their testimony should be false.'... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 582 páginas
...obligation to speak the truth. It has been said that, by taking an oath, a witness makes a formal and solemn appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of the evidence which he is about to give, and imprecates the Divine vengeance on his head, if what he shall say should be... | |
 | John Appleton - 1860 - 298 páginas
...likewise is drawn from the oath administered.^) " All witnesses before they are examined, are called to an oath, by which they appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of their assertions, and imprecate divine vengeance on themselves if their testimony should be false."... | |
 | Stephen Vincent Benét - 1862 - 396 páginas
...oath or affirmation. In taking an oath, a witness must be understood as making a formal and solemn appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of the evidence which he is about to give, and further as imprecating the Divine vengeance on his head, if what he shall... | |
 | Burr W. Jones - 1908 - 1408 páginas
...justice, testimony should be given under the sanction of an oath. In judicio non creditur nisi juratis. "It is not sufficient that a witness believes himself bound to speak thp truth from a regard to character or to the common interests of society, or from a fear of the punishment... | |
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All witnesses, before they are examined, are required to take an oath, by which they appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of the evidence which they are about to give. This necessarily implies a belief, that, by the laws of God, truth is enjoined,... 