| 1888 - 564 pages
...marriage. A husband or wife is not competent to testify against the other, in the trial of an action founded upon an allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage or disprove adultery; nor can either without the consent of the other he compelled to disclose confidential communications... | |
| New York (State) - 1876 - 398 pages
...wife not other, upon the trial of an action, or the hearing, upon the merits, of a witnesses' 8Pecial proceeding, founded upon an allegation of adultery ; except to prove the marriage. A wife is not a competent witness for or against her husband, in an action for criminal conversation.... | |
| American Bar Association - 1887 - 460 pages
...marriage, A husband or wife is not competent to testify against the other in the trial of an action founded upon an allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage or disprove adultery ; nor can either without the consent of the other be compelled to disclose confidential communications... | |
| New York (State) - 1880 - 668 pages
...wife is not competent to testify against the other, upon the trial of an competent, action, or the hearing upon the merits, of a special proceeding,...allegation of adultery ; except to prove the marriage. A 216 (a) Engrosser's error for "or." PART II husband or wife shall not be compelled, or without consent... | |
| New York (State) - 1880 - 348 pages
...husband or a wife is not competent to testify against the othe.r uPon the trial of an action, or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding founded...allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage. A husband or wife shall not be compelled, or without consent of the other, if living, allowed to disclose... | |
| Austin Abbott - 1880 - 928 pages
...husband or a wife is not competent to testify against the other upon the trial of an action, or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding founded...allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage. A husband or wife3 shall not bo compelled4 or, without consent of the other if living, allowed to disclose... | |
| New York (State) - 1880 - 1018 pages
...husband or a wife is not competent to testify against the other upon the trial of an action, or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding founded...allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage. A husband or wife shall not be compelled, or without consent of the other, if living, allowed to disclose... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1881 - 682 pages
..."a husband or wife is not competent to testify against the other upon the trial of an action or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding founded...allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage." We are relegated to the old practice in chancery by which such collateral facts set forth in a verified... | |
| New York (State) - 1881 - 1532 pages
...husband or a wife Is not competent to testify against the other upon the trial of au action, or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding founded upon an allegation of adultciy, except to prove the marriage. A husband or wife shnll not IM? compelled, or without consent... | |
| New York (State)., Marcus Tullius Hun - 1881 - 328 pages
...divorce, etc. § 831. Husband and wife not competent to testify against each other in an action or special proceeding founded upon an allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage. § 1012. Reference not made, of course, by consent of parties in an action for divorce, etc., — court... | |
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