 | Samuel Prentice - 1877 - 358 sidor
...indicted, tried, and convicted for perjury as if he had taken an oath." By CLP Act, 1854, s. 22, " a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse (a), contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge, prove that he has made at other times... | |
 | Theodore Thring, Charles Edwin Gifford - 1877 - 584 sidor
...a rule of practice, which a court. martial would do well in following under similar circumstances. "A party producing a witness shall not be allowed...witness shall, in the opinion of the judge, prove adverse,3 1 2 Taylor, Ev. 1217. 5 2 Russ. 915. 3 "Adverse" means "hostile," not " unfavourable :" Greenou'jh... | |
 | John Mounteney Lely, William Decimus Inglett Foulkes - 1877 - 700 sidor
...would extend to affirmations under the Evidence Amendment Act, 1S69. Impeaching credit of witnoss. 22. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but ho may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 900 sidor
...Hovr fur л shall not be allowed to impeach his character by general evidence of bad character, (x) but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge, prove adverse, (y) contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge, prove that he has made at other times... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 sidor
...to AB that the prosecutor had not given her any money. (n) But now by the 28 & 29 Viet. c. 18, s. 3, "a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his character by general evidence of bad character, bat he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion... | |
 | British Guiana - 1877 - 606 sidor
...be allowed to impeach n'8 ored't Dv Ieneral evidence of bad character, but he may, in accredited by case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge, prove adverse, ducfn" Jiin.0* contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made... | |
 | 1878 - 556 sidor
...set at rest by 17 Л 18 Viet. c. 125, s. 22 whereof enacts that a party producing a witness shall nob be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character ; but ho may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 sidor
...18 Viet c. 125), when a party calls a witness who in the opinion of the Judge proves adverse, he may contradict him by other evidence or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has at other times made a statement inconsistent with his present testimony, but before such last mentioned... | |
 | Florida - 1881 - 1354 sidor
...the case does not from its nature disclose the existence of other and better evidence. (o) SEC. 26. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...of bad character, but he may, in case the witness prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or prove that he lias made at other times a statement... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - 1881 - 678 sidor
...4 IB. ter, he may, in case the witness, in the opinion of the judge, proves adverse (ie, hostile), contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge, prove that at other times he has made a statement inconsistent with his present testimony ; but before such last-mentioned... | |
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A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge,... 
