 How is it possible under such circumstances for any tribunal sitting judicially to say which of these two individuals died first? We may guess, or imagine, or fancy ; but the law of England requires evidence, and we are of opinion that there is no evidence...  A System of Legal Medicine - Page 241by Allan McLane Hamilton, Lawrence Godkin - 1894Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...circumstances, for any tribunal sitting judicially, to say which of these two individuals died first ? We may guess, or imagine, or fancy ; but the law of England requires evidence ; and we are of opinion that there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial opinion that either... | |
 | 1855 - 486 pages
...circumstances, for any tribunal, sitting judicially, to say which of these two individuals died first ? We may guess, or imagine, or fancy ; but the law of England requires evidence, and we are of opinion there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial opinion that either survived... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1866 - 1102 pages
...much less conclusive than formerly. In Underwood ,t'. Wing, 1 Jur. N. s. Ifi9, Wif/fUman, J., said : " We may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of England requires evidence; and (in a case of this kind) we are of opinion that there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1873 - 378 pages
...tribunal which is to decide upon it, and which is to determine it as it determines any othor fact." " We may guess, or imagine, or fancy ; but the law of England requires evidence, and we are of opinion that there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial opinion that either... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1880 - 886 pages
...property depend. In the language of the Lord Chancellor, in Wing v. Underwood, 4 DeGex, M. & G. 633, " We may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of England require* evidence." There are cases where a strong probability in theory at least would arise, that... | |
 | Henry Aubrey Husband - 1883 - 626 pages
...husband survive the wife, or the wife the husband 1 and on this Wightman J., in summing up said : — ' We may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of England requires evidence, and we are of opinion that there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial opinion that either... | |
 | 1891 - 1138 pages
...equally impenetrable uncertainty. As observed by the Lord CHANCELLOR, in Underwood v. Wing, supra : " We may guess, or imagine or fancy, but the law of England requires evidence. " If the parents were drowned, and the children were killed by the falling roof, it Is possible the... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1894 - 692 pages
...Underwood vs. Wing, 4 DeG., Mt-N., & G. 633 ; sc 31 Eng. Law & Eq. 293. tliese two individuals died first ? We may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of...think that they themselves even are very confident. Indwd, it is idle when you are calculating and reasoning t) priori in this way, as to which of two... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1894 - 830 pages
...property depends. In the language of the Lord Chancellor in Wing v. Underwood (4 DeGex, M. and G., 633) : 'We may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of England requires evidence.' There are cases where a strong probability in theory at least would arise, that one person survived... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1896 - 774 pages
...impenetrable uncertainty. As observed by the LORD CHANCELLOR in Wing v. Underwood, 4 DeG., M. & G. 0$i, ' we may guess, or imagine, or fancy, but the law of England requires evidence.'" "If we were to draw inferences of the duration of life after a person has been submerged, these inferences... | |
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