 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 418 pages
...admitted, is, that they are declarations made in extremity, ' when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falfehood is 'filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth.... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence (Law) - 1804 - 534 pages
...was obferved by Lord CB Eyre in a cafe of this kind, " when the party is at the' point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falfehood is filenced, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...is " well expressed by Lord Chief Justice Eyre, " every hope of this world is gone, every mo" tive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is " induced...most powerful considerations " to speak the truth." (Vide Melun's dying declaration in the fifth act of this play.) "A " situation so solemn and so awful,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence - 1822 - 666 pages
...observed by Lord CB Eyre in a case of this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every...considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence - 1822 - 668 pages
...observed by Lord CB Eyre in a case of this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is . fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situa-^... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1828 - 836 pages
...are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood...considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 972 pages
...admitted is, that these declarations are made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death and when every hope of this world is gone; when every...considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...Lord Chief Justice Eyre, are made in extremity, lctest' when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every...considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so impending '«• • Iribution. awful, he observed, is considered by the law as creating an obligation... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...admitted, is, that it is of declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every...considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by an oath... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 662 pages
...injury received, sad under which he then languished. id and in no instance did the lost record it- 114. When every hope of this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood is ei-! lenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth, a situation... | |
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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 every hope of this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and... 
