The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Bind 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1832 |
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Side 5
... supposed , would lead to the establishment of a general rule , and how it would thus become a fixed principle of law , that no witness was competent to give evidence who had any pecuniary interest in the event of the suit , or who had ...
... supposed , would lead to the establishment of a general rule , and how it would thus become a fixed principle of law , that no witness was competent to give evidence who had any pecuniary interest in the event of the suit , or who had ...
Side 7
... supposed to offer a strong temptation to perjury . But it by no means fol- lows that every witness is ready to yield to a strong temptation , or , even were this certain , that his testimony may not prove of con- siderable value ...
... supposed to offer a strong temptation to perjury . But it by no means fol- lows that every witness is ready to yield to a strong temptation , or , even were this certain , that his testimony may not prove of con- siderable value ...
Side 10
... supposed to have an interest in the event of the cause . So that in this single instance the rule in question served ... supposed to have a motive to speak falsely ; in the other , because his character is supposed to be such as to ...
... supposed to have an interest in the event of the cause . So that in this single instance the rule in question served ... supposed to have a motive to speak falsely ; in the other , because his character is supposed to be such as to ...
Side 11
... supposed that the criminal is necessarily reformed by undergoing the punishment ? Or what is the legal fiction im- plied ? Not that we object to any rule for the admission of additional evidence ; but the simple fact that it is ...
... supposed that the criminal is necessarily reformed by undergoing the punishment ? Or what is the legal fiction im- plied ? Not that we object to any rule for the admission of additional evidence ; but the simple fact that it is ...
Side 12
... supposed to be under the influence of the slightest motive to mendacity ; or even if he be supposed peculiarly liable to be influenced by such a motive , though the motive itself may not exist . It assumes that the most respectable ...
... supposed to be under the influence of the slightest motive to mendacity ; or even if he be supposed peculiarly liable to be influenced by such a motive , though the motive itself may not exist . It assumes that the most respectable ...
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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.