 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 pages
...determined that a judgment in a criminal prosecution cannot be given in evidence in a civil action, to establish the truth of the facts, on which it was rendered (#) ; neither can a judgment in a civil action be given in evidence for such a purpose in a criminal... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 746 pages
...judgments in a criminal prosecution. Such a judgment cannot be given in evidence in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered, any more than a judgment in a civil action could be given for the same purpose in a criminal prosecution.... | |
 | Joseph Haworth Redman - 1872 - 400 pages
...on Evidence, 1503; Keen v. Batshore, 1 Esp. 194.) It has been held that an award is not admissible in evidence to establish the truth of the facts on which it is rendered, against a party to be affected by the proof of it in a criminal case. (R. v. Fontaine... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1880 - 640 pages
...VOL. XI. missible as evidence in the nature of reputation — cannot be received in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered." That is, such « conviction is no evidence of the commission of a felony in a civil suit like this,... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1882 - 852 pages
...unless admissible as evidence in the nature of reputation — t-annot be received in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered. That is, such a conviction is no evidence of the commission of a felony in a civil suit like this,... | |
 | Syed Ameer Ali, Sir John George Woodroffe - 1898 - 1646 pages
...in conjunction with the prosecution, as an act of ownership,* cannot be received in a civil .action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered; and a judgment in a civil action, or an award, cannot be given in evidence for such a purpose in a... | |
 | 1919 - 1116 pages
...based on the same transaction, it cannot, on the other hand, be given in evidence in the civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered. This rule rests upon the consideration that the parties to a criminal prosecution and those in a civil... | |
 | 1926 - 1242 pages
...Appeals definitely rules that a judgment in a criminal prosecution cannot be received in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered, but that a plea of guilty is admissible. So, without discussing further that proposition and the cases... | |
 | 1905 - 304 pages
...facts adjudicated, a judgment in a criminal prosecution . . . cannot be received in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered ; and a judgment in a civil action, or an award, cannot be given in evidence for such a purpose in... | |
 | 1878 - 842 pages
...unless admissible in evidence in the nature of reputation — cannot be received in a civil action to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered." The conviction is no proof of the crime, it is res inter alioi. 470 MICHAELMAS 1877 TO MICHAELMAS 1878.... | |
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An exception to the rule that a judgment in a criminal prosecution cannot be received in a civil action, to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered... 
