| 1845 - 542 pages
...with other writings already in evidence in the cause. See cases above. as experts usually come with a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked, little, if any, weight will be attached to their evidence 1 , and the Courts will jealously take care... | |
| 1845 - 532 pages
...Cl. & Fin. 198., per Ld. Brougham. See Gurney v. Langlands, 5 B. & A. as experts usually come with a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked, little, if any, weight will be attached to their evidence 1, and the Courts will jealously take care... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 pages
...expressing a candid opinion. To adopt the language of Lord Campbell, " they come with such a bias 011 their minds to support the cause in which they are...hardly any weight should be given to their evidence" (q). § 47. A third ground of the credibility of evidence is afforded by the exercise of our reason... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 pages
...of pronouncing a safe opinion on a subject of this nature (/). Still, as experts usually come with a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked, little if any weight will be attached to their evidence (TO), and the Courts will jealously take care... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1858 - 898 pages
...are incapable of expressing a candid opinion. To adopt the language of Lord Campbell, " they coine with such a bias on their minds to support the cause...hardly any weight should be given to their evidence." ' § 51. A third ground of the credibility of evidence is afforded by the exercise of reason upon the... | |
| 1869 - 430 pages
...disposed, they are incapable of expressing a candid opinion. To adopt the language of Lord Campbell, 'they come with such a bias on their minds to support the...embarked, that hardly any weight should be given to their testimony.' "* And further on, Mr. Taylor proceeds to institute a comparison between the evidence of... | |
| 1885 - 544 pages
...in Tracy Peerage, 10 Cl. & Fin. 154, 191, Lord Campbell said that skilled witnesses came with suet a bias on their minds to support the cause in which...hardly any weight should be given to their evidence. Without indorsing this strong language, which is however countenanced by the utterance of other judges... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1873 - 616 pages
...hardly any weight is to be given to the evidence of what arc called scientific witnesses. They come with a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked.' "Judge McLEAN also bears witness to the remarkable conflict that is generally displayed in the examination... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1874 - 852 pages
...any weight is to be given to the evidence of what are called scientific witnesses ; they come with a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked ; and it appears to me that Sir Frederick (a) It was in evidence that William Tracy, the claimant's... | |
| 1874 - 1178 pages
...had but little credit in courts of law.* Thus we find Lord Campbell remarking, " Skilled witnesses come with such a bias on their minds to support the cause in * See Taylor on Evidence, p. 73, sec. 50. which they are embarked, that hardly any weight should be... | |
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