The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Bind 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1832 |
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... character of the witness and the circumstances under which his testimony might be given . Or , to take one still more striking example from our own law : -In certain civil actions a defendant was allowed to avail himself of what was ...
... character of the witness and the circumstances under which his testimony might be given . Or , to take one still more striking example from our own law : -In certain civil actions a defendant was allowed to avail himself of what was ...
Side 5
... character , who had already been convicted of serious offences , and under peculiar circumstances , which might render his testimony almost wholly worthless . It would manifestly be improper to allow such evidence to be received on the ...
... character , who had already been convicted of serious offences , and under peculiar circumstances , which might render his testimony almost wholly worthless . It would manifestly be improper to allow such evidence to be received on the ...
Side 6
... character and large fortune will certainly perjure himself , in all cases , for a few pence or shillings . It may be said that this is an extreme case . It is so ; and it is purposely selected , in order to render the absurdity of the ...
... character and large fortune will certainly perjure himself , in all cases , for a few pence or shillings . It may be said that this is an extreme case . It is so ; and it is purposely selected , in order to render the absurdity of the ...
Side 7
... character , so as to apply a general rule ; still , the utmost that could be accomplished would be the exclusion of the testimony in cases where the interest was supposed to offer a strong temptation to perjury . But it by no means fol ...
... character , so as to apply a general rule ; still , the utmost that could be accomplished would be the exclusion of the testimony in cases where the interest was supposed to offer a strong temptation to perjury . But it by no means fol ...
Side 10
... character is supposed to be such as to render him liable to be acted upon by such a motive . In the one case , strangely enough , perjury is supposed to be the necessary conse- quence of the slightest motive , whatever may be the character ...
... character is supposed to be such as to render him liable to be acted upon by such a motive . In the one case , strangely enough , perjury is supposed to be the necessary conse- quence of the slightest motive , whatever may be the character ...
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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.