Leading Cases on the Law of Evidence: With NotesSweet and Maxwell, 1907 - 224 pages |
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... Character of Parties 68 In Civil Cases , generally irrelevant 69 In Defamation Cases , Plaintiff's Character relevant 70 In some Cases relevant as to Damages 71 In Criminal Cases , Prisoner's Character relevant In Cases of Rape , & c ...
... Character of Parties 68 In Civil Cases , generally irrelevant 69 In Defamation Cases , Plaintiff's Character relevant 70 In some Cases relevant as to Damages 71 In Criminal Cases , Prisoner's Character relevant In Cases of Rape , & c ...
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... Character for Veracity ( 4 ) By Evidence of previous Convictions ( f ) PRIVILEGE OF WITNESSES ( 1 ) Incriminating Questions and Documents Including those tending to Forfeiture ( 2 ) Professional Communications Unless made in furtherance ...
... Character for Veracity ( 4 ) By Evidence of previous Convictions ( f ) PRIVILEGE OF WITNESSES ( 1 ) Incriminating Questions and Documents Including those tending to Forfeiture ( 2 ) Professional Communications Unless made in furtherance ...
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... characters without producing their appointments . . . . Neither in actions for tithes is it necessary for the incumbent to prove presentation , institution , and induction ; proof that he received the tithes , and acted as the incumbent ...
... characters without producing their appointments . . . . Neither in actions for tithes is it necessary for the incumbent to prove presentation , institution , and induction ; proof that he received the tithes , and acted as the incumbent ...
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... character - liable to numerous causes of fallacy ' ( Wills on Circumstantial Evidence , pp . 35—42 ) . " " REX v . ELLIS ( 1826 ) . 6 B. & C. 145 . All facts which are parts of the same transaction are relevant to each other , so that ...
... character - liable to numerous causes of fallacy ' ( Wills on Circumstantial Evidence , pp . 35—42 ) . " " REX v . ELLIS ( 1826 ) . 6 B. & C. 145 . All facts which are parts of the same transaction are relevant to each other , so that ...
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... character , is relevant and admissible also . The principle here applied is admitted on all hands to be correct . . . . The only question therefore remaining is one of fact , whether there was any evidence of such act by Mr. Marsden in ...
... character , is relevant and admissible also . The principle here applied is admitted on all hands to be correct . . . . The only question therefore remaining is one of fact , whether there was any evidence of such act by Mr. Marsden in ...
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Page 167 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.
Page 209 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or by leave of the Judge prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 29 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 189 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 30 - ... if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth...
Page 2 - The Judge has to say whether any facts have been established by evidence from which negligence may be reasonably inferred ; the jurors have to say whether, from those facts, when submitted to them, negligence ought to be inferred.
Page 30 - wilfully," however, in that rule, we must understand, if not that the party represents that to be true which he knows to be untrue, at least that he means his representation to be acted upon, and that it is acted upon accordingly ; and if, whatever a man's real intention may be, he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally...
Page 150 - ... if upon the trial of the person so accused as first aforesaid it shall be proved, by the oath or affirmation of any credible witness, that any person whose deposition shall have been taken as aforesaid is dead, or so ill as not to be able to travel...
Page 192 - ... does not in the opinion of the court understand the nature of an oath...
Page 26 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true : first, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another Court...