The Brief: A Quarterly Magazine of the Law, Volume 31901 |
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... given on the direct examination . Where a witness is suspected of bad faith , the object of cross - examination is to involve him in contradictions which will affect the value of his testimony or to show his ignorance of certain facts ...
... given on the direct examination . Where a witness is suspected of bad faith , the object of cross - examination is to involve him in contradictions which will affect the value of his testimony or to show his ignorance of certain facts ...
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... given on the direct examination . Where a witness is suspected of bad faith , the object of cross - examination is to involve him in contradictions which will affect the value of his testimony or to show his ignorance of certain facts ...
... given on the direct examination . Where a witness is suspected of bad faith , the object of cross - examination is to involve him in contradictions which will affect the value of his testimony or to show his ignorance of certain facts ...
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... given repeated notice of dissent from the settlements in his pass - book . The action was to recover from the bank a large sum , represented by checks which had mysteriously disappeared from the pass - book when it was balanced and ...
... given repeated notice of dissent from the settlements in his pass - book . The action was to recover from the bank a large sum , represented by checks which had mysteriously disappeared from the pass - book when it was balanced and ...
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A Quarterly Magazine of the Law. probably be in a given case . The amount claimed was large- over $ 30,000 . The books of the bank showed checks to that amount coming through the clearing - house or paid over the counter and charged to ...
A Quarterly Magazine of the Law. probably be in a given case . The amount claimed was large- over $ 30,000 . The books of the bank showed checks to that amount coming through the clearing - house or paid over the counter and charged to ...
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... given under the solemnity of an oath . Witnesses seldom know when to stop talking . The tendency of even the most honest is to give an account complete in all its parts , and to fill up , with what is mere inference , the gaps in actual ...
... given under the solemnity of an oath . Witnesses seldom know when to stop talking . The tendency of even the most honest is to give an account complete in all its parts , and to fill up , with what is mere inference , the gaps in actual ...
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Page 367 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, or who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuberpropagated plant, not known or used by others in this country, before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 246 - ... able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name: provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not. apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any persons who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect.
Page 208 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 267 - Law, considered as a science, consists of certain principles or doctrines. To have such a mastery of these as to be able to apply them with constant facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs, is what constitutes a true lawyer ; and hence to acquire that mastery should be the business of every earnest student of law.
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Page 142 - Is precluded from denying to his immediate or a subsequent indorsee that the bill was at the time of his indorsement a valid and subsisting bill, and that he had then a good title thereto.
Page 23 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 452 - ... name and the date upon which the same is attached or used, so that the same may not again be used...
Page 253 - It follows that the amendment has invested the citizens of the United States with a new constitutional right which is within the protecting power of Congress. That right is exemption from discrimination in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Page 452 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.