 | Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - 1881 - 678 pages
...write, or from being in the habit of corresponding with him (p). It is also provided by statute that comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, may be made by witnesses ; and that such writings and the evidence of witnesses... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 638 pages
...testing the credibility of the witness. (/) By the 32 & 33 Vic., c. 29, s. 67, it is provided that comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the court to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and it has been held under this section that... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - 1882 - 560 pages
...describing the resemblance or want of resemblance between them. 1 A recent English statute declares that, comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence... | |
 | Samuel Prentice - 1882 - 402 pages
...But see Guniey V. iMnglaiids, 5 B. & A. 880; Cary v. Pitt, Peake Ev. App. 84.) By the above enactment "comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writing and the evidence... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1883 - 840 pages
...36), " to amend the law of evidence and practice, on civil and criminal trials," it is provided that comparison of a disputed writing, with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the court to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made, by witnesses, in all trials and proceedings ; and such wntings... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel, Walter Sichel, William Chance - 1883 - 452 pages
...Wilson v. Thornbury, LR 17 Eq. 517. By the 27th section of the CLP Act, 1854, it is enacted that a comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and under the Chancery Amendment Act... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1883 - 686 pages
...adopted the views of the dissenting Judges in Mudd v. Suckermore, by enacting a statute in these terms: " Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writings and the evidence... | |
 | 1900 - 632 pages
...virtue of the provisions of the acts of 1880 and 1888. The language of these statutes is : "Section 1. Comparison of a disputed writing, with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the court to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses in all trials and proceedings, and such writings... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1884 - 798 pages
...act of 1880 (Chap. 36, Laws of 1880), authorizing a comparison to be made, by witnesses on a trial, " of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the court to be genuine," where the genuineness of a signature is in question, it is competent to give in evidence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1894 - 782 pages
...it is now provided in England, as "to all courts of judicature, as well criminal as others," "that comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, shall be permitted VOL. CLI — 20 306 Opinion of the Court. to be made by the... | |
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Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and... 
