| Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 sidor
...opportunity for cross-examination, and against or in favor of the party charged with the death." " When every hope of this world is gone, when every...induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the tiuth, a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating the most impressive of... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 840 sidor
...opportunity for cross-examination, and against or in favor of the party charged with the death. " " When every hope of this world is gone, when every...considerations to speak the truth, a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating the most impressive of sanctions." 1 Whart. Grim. Law, §... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 sidor
...dying declarations. The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, was stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre to be this, — that they are...to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, bj the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 sidor
...whom it was committed. (t) The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood ¡s silenced, and the mind is induced by the... | |
| Theodore Thring, Charles Edwin Gifford - 1877 - 584 sidor
...party by whom it was committed. The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when,...party is at the 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... | |
| William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - 1877 - 780 sidor
...whom it -was committed. (г) 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 even- hope in this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced... | |
| William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 sidor
...the subject of the dying declaration. The principle on which this evidence is admitted is, that such declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death and every hope of this world gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced... | |
| Ambrose Bolivar Carlton - 1882 - 424 sidor
...502; 1 Gilb. Ev. 280 ; Watston v. Coin. 16 B. Mon. 15 ; 31 Texas, 579; Hil l i. Dying Declarations. world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced,...considerations to speak the truth, a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating the most impressive of sanctions. § 560. Evidence does... | |
| John Worth Edmonds - 1883 - 500 sidor
...admissible only upon a charge for the murder of the declarant, and then they are admissible only when made in extremity, when the party is at the point...most powerful considerations, to speak the truth. This rule stands on the ground of public necessity of preserving the lives of the community, by bringing... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1883 - 840 sidor
...given of their contents. ( p) 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 every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is siicnced, and the mind is induced,... | |
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