The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Bind 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1832 |
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Side 4
... England , two wit- nesses are required to establish a charge of perjury ; because it is said that , " otherwise , there would only be one oath against another ; " as if the value of an oath were always the same , inde- pendent alike of ...
... England , two wit- nesses are required to establish a charge of perjury ; because it is said that , " otherwise , there would only be one oath against another ; " as if the value of an oath were always the same , inde- pendent alike of ...
Side 5
... England has been framed not with a deliberate and enlarged consideration of the best means of promoting the object in view , but that it has gradually grown up out of the deci- sions of judges in particular cases ; it is not difficult ...
... England has been framed not with a deliberate and enlarged consideration of the best means of promoting the object in view , but that it has gradually grown up out of the deci- sions of judges in particular cases ; it is not difficult ...
Side 6
... England , we may mention one erroneous principle which appears to pervade them all . It seems to be assumed that truth and falsehood are , in all cases , a matter of indifference to the speaker , and that mendacity is to be expected as ...
... England , we may mention one erroneous principle which appears to pervade them all . It seems to be assumed that truth and falsehood are , in all cases , a matter of indifference to the speaker , and that mendacity is to be expected as ...
Side 12
... England profess to be as to the quality of the evidence which it receives , that it refuses to hear a witness , if he be supposed to be under the influence of the slightest motive to mendacity ; or even if he be supposed peculiarly ...
... England profess to be as to the quality of the evidence which it receives , that it refuses to hear a witness , if he be supposed to be under the influence of the slightest motive to mendacity ; or even if he be supposed peculiarly ...
Side 23
... England , no charge of high treason can be established without the evidence of at least two witnesses . Now we have already seen that , so far as regards the immediate object of inquiry , nothing can be more absurd than any limitation ...
... England , no charge of high treason can be established without the evidence of at least two witnesses . Now we have already seen that , so far as regards the immediate object of inquiry , nothing can be more absurd than any limitation ...
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Side 92 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Side 93 - Sir. you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking. or what you call knowing a cause to be bad. must be from reasoning. must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Side 155 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance, and succession to lands, rents and goods and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Side 93 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself, may convince the Judge to whom you urge it: and if it does convince him, why then, Sir, you are wrong, and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the Judge's opinion.
Side 211 - And therefore, I'll not have a chambermaid That ties her shoes, or any meaner office, But such whose fathers were right worshipful. 'Tis a rich man's pride! there having ever been More than a feud, a strange antipathy, Between us and true gentry.
Side 382 - ... infirmities. When the court fell into a steady course of using the law against all kinds of offenders, this man was taken into the king's business ; and had the part of drawing and perusal of almost all indictments and informations that were then to be prosecuted with the pleadings thereon if any were special ; and he had the settling of the large pleadings in the quo warranto against London.
Side 208 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Side 228 - To give judgment privately, is to put an -end to reports ; and to put an end to reports, is to put an end to the law of England.
Side 94 - He makes not a Trojan siege of a suit, but seeks to bring it to a set battle in a speedy trial. Yet sometimes suits are continued by their difficulty, the potency and stomach of the parties, without any default in the lawyer.
Side 106 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme.