The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Volumen3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1832 |
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... consequence of the operation of the slightest motive , or even without any motive whatever . Such a conclusion is notoriously contrary to the fact . The most confirmed liar tells truth ninety - nine times out of a hundred . Truth is the ...
... consequence of the operation of the slightest motive , or even without any motive whatever . Such a conclusion is notoriously contrary to the fact . The most confirmed liar tells truth ninety - nine times out of a hundred . Truth is the ...
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... consequences have resulted from the admission of such evidence , nor has it ever been proposed to lay any restrictions on its reception Again , not only have English lawyers and legislators thus tacitly admitted the impolicy of the ...
... consequences have resulted from the admission of such evidence , nor has it ever been proposed to lay any restrictions on its reception Again , not only have English lawyers and legislators thus tacitly admitted the impolicy of the ...
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... consequence of the slightest temptation , and that a convicted felon will perjure him- self without any motive whatever . And yet , in the case before us , it admits the testimony of the most worthless of mankind ; of one who has not ...
... consequence of the slightest temptation , and that a convicted felon will perjure him- self without any motive whatever . And yet , in the case before us , it admits the testimony of the most worthless of mankind ; of one who has not ...
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... consequence that the evidence of children should be submitted to the test of a cross - examination , and that it should in all cases be taken as soon as possible after the occurrence of the event to which it relates . Yet it has been a ...
... consequence that the evidence of children should be submitted to the test of a cross - examination , and that it should in all cases be taken as soon as possible after the occurrence of the event to which it relates . Yet it has been a ...
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... consequence of the anxious situation in which he stands . So far , at present , is the English law from sanctioning the examination of the accused , that , according to the practice of some judges , he is scarcely allowed to admit his ...
... consequence of the anxious situation in which he stands . So far , at present , is the English law from sanctioning the examination of the accused , that , according to the practice of some judges , he is scarcely allowed to admit his ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 155 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance, and succession to lands, rents and goods and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.