 All questions upon the rules of evidence are of vast importance to all orders and degrees of men ; our lives, our liberty, and our property, are all concerned in the support of these rules, which have been matured by the wisdom of ages, and are now revered...  Murder of Union Soldiers - Page 37by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of the House Appointed to Investigate the Murder of Union Soldiers in the South - 1867 - 37 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1792 - 638 pages
...have been matured by the wifdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity, and the good fenfe in which they are founded ; they are not rules depending on technical refinements, but upon good fenfe ; and the prefervation of them is the firft duty of Judges. The evidence fhould be given under... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 pages
...have been matured by the wifdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity, and the good fenfe in which they are founded : they are not rules depending on technical refinements, but upon good fenfe, and the prefervation of them is the firft duty of a judge. Evidence fhould- be given under the... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 pages
...been matured by the wifdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity, and the good fenfe ia which they are founded : they are not rules depending on technical refinements, but upon good fenfe, and the prefervation of them is the firft duty of a judge. Evidence fhould be given under the... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1804 - 534 pages
...have been matured by the wii'dom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity and the good fenfe in which they are founded : they are not rules depending on technical refinements, but upon good fcnfe ; and the prelervation of them is the firil duty of Judges. The evidence iliould be given un.lcr... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1804 - 226 pages
...whic-TfbaVe been matured by the wifdom of acres and ere now revered from their antiquity and the good fenfe in which they are founded : they are not rules depending on technical refinements, but up. on good fenfe ; and the prefervation of them is the firfl duty of Judges. The evidence fhould be... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - 1817 - 946 pages
...the support of these rules, which have been matured by the wisdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity and the good sense in which they are...preservation of them is the first duty of Judges. The evidence should be given under the sanction of an oath legally administered, and in a judicial... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford - 1817 - 860 pages
...the wisdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity and the good sense iu \\hich they arc founded: they are not rules depending on technical...preservation of them is the first duty of Judges. The evidence should be given under the sanction of an oath legally administered, and in a judicial... | |
 | Peyton Randolph, Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1827 - 776 pages
...the support of these rules, which have been matured by the wisdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity, and the good sense in which they...preservation of them is the first duty of Judges." Among these rules, none is more firmly fixed, or rests on a more solid foundation, than this ; "that... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1827 - 668 pages
...the support of these rules, which have been matured by the wisdom of ages, and are now revered from their antiquity and the good sense in which they are...preservation of them is the first duty of judges." 3 Term Rep. p. 707. III. Ashhurst, j. " There is so great a contradiction in decisions respecting the... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1840 - 330 pages
...the support of these rules, which have been matured by the wisdom of ages, and are nowre»ere</from their antiquity and the good sense in which they are...on technical refinements, but upon good sense ; and Me preservation of them is the first duty of judges." 3 Term Rep. p. 707. II. Peake, 159. The same... | |
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