 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 sidor
...Lord Chief Justice Eyre, " every hope of this world is gone, every mo" tive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is " induced by the most powerful considerations " to speak the truth." (Vide Melun's dying declaration in the fifth act of this play.) "A " situation so solemn and so awful,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 666 sidor
...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 ; a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 668 sidor
...point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is . fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situa-^ tioii so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 sidor
...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 most powerful considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | 1883 - 648 sidor
...patient is at the point of death, and when every motive to falsehood is silenced. A situation so solemn is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that imposed by an oath in court. But in order that such 'declarations may be admitted, it is essential... | |
 | 1869 - 972 sidor
...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. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 582 sidor
...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; a situation so solemn, and so Impending reawtui, he observed, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 sidor
...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. A situation so solemn and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by an oath... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1845 - 824 sidor
...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 most powerful considerations, to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1846 - 598 sidor
...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 most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
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Now 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... 
