 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), John William Wallace - 1849 - 584 sidor
...family. The rule of admission is, therefore, restricted to the declarations of deceased persons, who were related by blood or marriage, to the person, and,...therefore, interested in the succession in question." \ TREAT, on the law of Evid. Pt. II. Ch. V. § 103.) It is to be observed that not one of these four... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 714 sidor
...Evidence by hearsay, to prove pedigree, is restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and therefore, interested in the succession in question. 13 Vesey, 140, 147. Cowp. 591. 13 Vesry, 514. 2 Bing. 86. 2 Rutt. If My. 147, 156. 1 Orowp. Mecs, If... | |
 | 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 - 1920 - 808 sidor
...family. The rule of admission is, therefore, restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and, therefore, interested in the succession in question; and general repute in the family, proved by the testimony of a surviving member of it, has been considered... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 788 sidor
...of kindred or affinity. This may be shown by proving the declarations of deceased persons, who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and therefore interested in the succession in question ; the declarations of all other persons are excluded. (a) General repute in the family, proved by a... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 sidor
...family. The rule of admission is, therefore, restricted to the declarations of deceased persons, who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and, therefore, interested in the succession in question.3 Trelawney v . Coleman, 1 Barn. & Aid. 90. for the plaintiff. Bacon ». Charlton, 7 [And... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 834 sidor
...family. p The rule of admission is, however, restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related, by blood or marriage, to the person, and,...therefore, interested in the succession in question. q General reputation in the family, shown by the testimony of a surviving member of it, has been held... | |
 | Anson Bingham - 1875 - 570 sidor
...admission as evidence of the declarations of deceased persons, the deceased persons must be shown to be " related by blood or marriage to the person, and, therefore, interested in the succession in question." There was also another piece of evidence which was held to have been improperly excluded in the court... | |
 | William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - 1879 - 534 sidor
...the family. The rule of admission is now restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and, therefore, interested in the succession in question ; and the general repute or declarations of the family, proved by the testimony of a surviving member... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 sidor
...of the family. The rule of admission is restricted to the declarations of deceased persons, who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and therefore Interested In the succession in question. The term "pedigree" embraces not only descent and relationship, but also the facts of birth, marriage,... | |
 | 1915 - 1318 sidor
...family. The rule of admission is therefore restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and therefore interested in the succession in question." That the rule, as thus stated by these emincut luw writers on the law of evidence, is the recognized... | |
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... upon the ground of the interest of the declarants in the person from whom the descent is made out, and their consequent interest in knowing the connections of the family. The rule of admission is therefore restricted to the declarations of deceased... 
