 The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him....  The South Western Reporter - Sida 621906Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1888 - 714 sidor
...be received with great caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject...having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1848 - 904 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with, great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject...also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning,... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - 1851 - 64 sidor
...consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed,...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party did say. The zeal too which so... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - 1851 - 898 sidor
...heard from the defendants; yet it is said by legal authors that such evidence consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the partyhimself may not have exprewed his own mean ing, or witness may have misunderstood him or failed... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890 - 816 sidor
...as it does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | 1859 - 292 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | 1859 - 300 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 sidor
...observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
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