The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and... A Compendium of the Law of Evidence - Seite 16von Thomas Peake - 1804 - 428 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1792 - 566 Seiten
...party is at the point ot d-rat-h, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every iinotive t? falfehood is filenced, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to (peak the truth : actuation fo foIcmn, and fo awful, is conddered by the Uw as cre-ating aa vbligation... | |
| Charles Viner - 1801 - 484 Seiten
...on this general principle, that being made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falfehood is filenced,and the mind is induced by the moil powerful confederations to fpeak the truth; a fituation... | |
| Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 Seiten
...on which this fpecres of evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made in extremity, ' when the party is at the point of death, and when...world is gone ; when every motive to falfehood is 'filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth. A fituation... | |
| Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...rule on which this fpecies of evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone 5 when every motive to falfehood is filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 Seiten
...principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the... | |
| 1869 - 970 Seiten
...upon which this species of evidence is admitted is, that these declarations are made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 1358 Seiten
...hearsay. Such de- Absence ni inclarations, says Lord Chief Justice Eyre, are made in extremity, lctest' when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1841 - 662 Seiten
...presence. The principle on which this evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made m exlrcmis, when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silent, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
| Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 Seiten
...principle upon which evidence of this kind is admitted, is, that it is of declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
| Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1845 - 824 Seiten
...principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the... | |
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