...shall apply and extend to all courts of judicature, as well criminal as all others, and to all persons having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence." Of the abstract justice of this provision, it is unnecessary to give any proof ; but, as an instance...

...they could not be obliged by their adversaries to become witnesses, the second section enacts, that " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any...

...they could not be obliged by their adversaries to become witnesses, the second section enacts, that " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any...

...register of a vessel kept under any of the acts relating to the registry of British vessels may be proved in any court of justice, or before any person having...authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, either by the production of the original or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting...

...evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the certain causes. practice of the Court, on the trial of any Issue joined, or of any Matter...Question, or on any Inquiry arising in any Suit, Action or Proceeding, Civil or Criminal, in any Court, or before any Judge, Jury, Sheriff, Coroner, Magistrate,...

...interest from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter...or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, or before any judge, jury, sheriff, coroner, magistrate,...

...íeTimony'in court» by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any Court, or before any Judge, Jury, Provost-Marshal, Coroner, Magistrate,...

...crime, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question or on any inquiry arising iu any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, or before any judge, jury, sheriff,...

...same, aa follows ; viz., I. No Person adduced as a Witness in Seotiand before any Witnesses not Court or before any Person having by Law or by Consent of Parties Authority 'to take Evidence, ehall be excluded from giving Evidence, by reason of having "been convicted of or hairing...

...6 & 7 Viet. c. 85. 2. On the trial of any issue joined, or of any mailer or question, Parties to be or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in admissible any court oj justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority...