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 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1919 - 720 sidor
...clearly expressed his meaning or the witness may have misunderstood him, and it sometimes happens that a witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statements of a defendant completely at variance with what the defendant did actually say, but it is... | |
 | 1922 - 1150 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; the party himself cither being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood... | |
 | 1922 - 1652 sidor
...to verbal statements should be received with great caution; the evidence, consisting as it does in mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, in consequence of the person speaking not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or in consequence... | |
 | 1923 - 1226 sidor
...observed that they onght to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject...clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness havini* misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also, that the witness by unintentionally altering... | |
 | 1923 - 1216 sidor
...with great caution. The evidence, consisting us it does of mere repetition of oral state- ' ments, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party...own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood. It frequently happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | Archibald Hall Throckmorton - 1924 - 594 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; the partyTTimseTf either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own riiieanjng, or the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1909 - 984 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; the party himsolf being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood... | |
 | 1885 - 592 sidor
...observed that they ought to be received with great caution, the evidence consisting, as it does, in a mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to...the witness having misunderstood him. it frequently happons also that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few expressions really used, gives an... | |
 | Newton Diehl Baker - 1928 - 954 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...party himself either being misinformed or not having correctly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it." If this principle of... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - 1928 - 972 sidor
...observed that they ought to be received with great caution. Such evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, as the party himself being either misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or... | |
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