The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 12Saunders and Benning, 1834 |
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... witnesses , the extracts from which we had selected at greater length but have been obliged reluctant- ly to curtail . Mr. J. Southerden Burn , a Solicitor , author of the History of Parish Registers in England and of the recent work on ...
... witnesses , the extracts from which we had selected at greater length but have been obliged reluctant- ly to curtail . Mr. J. Southerden Burn , a Solicitor , author of the History of Parish Registers in England and of the recent work on ...
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... [ baptisms it is presumed the witness meant ] and marriages are more accurately entered , but there are instances of neglect in those . " You belong , I believe , to the Established 6 Registration of Births , Marriages and Deaths .
... [ baptisms it is presumed the witness meant ] and marriages are more accurately entered , but there are instances of neglect in those . " You belong , I believe , to the Established 6 Registration of Births , Marriages and Deaths .
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... witnesses had to be examined , many swearing ( falsely no doubt whatever ) that he was born as much as two years before wedlock , and others confirming the actual fact , which accorded with the presumption arising from the baptismal ...
... witnesses had to be examined , many swearing ( falsely no doubt whatever ) that he was born as much as two years before wedlock , and others confirming the actual fact , which accorded with the presumption arising from the baptismal ...
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... witness , ) the entry is on mere hearsay , without authority , and that at best it is a mere casual de- claration of ... witnesses are continually altering and impairing , ) leaves the matter just as vague as ever . " With regard to the ...
... witness , ) the entry is on mere hearsay , without authority , and that at best it is a mere casual de- claration of ... witnesses are continually altering and impairing , ) leaves the matter just as vague as ever . " With regard to the ...
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... witnesses , to expressing the same sentiments more concisely and regularly , but less authoritatively , in our own language . The detached portions of evidence thus brought into juxta- position and harmonizing together , establish the ...
... witnesses , to expressing the same sentiments more concisely and regularly , but less authoritatively , in our own language . The detached portions of evidence thus brought into juxta- position and harmonizing together , establish the ...
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