 | Edmund Burke - History - 1878 - 650 pages
...words, spoken by Dr. Macartney, English Secretary to the Chinese Legation : " You shall tell the truth, the whole truth ; the saucer is cracked, and if you...the truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer ") deposed that he was walking along Oxford Street yesterday afternoon with a friend, when the prisoner... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1852 - 988 pages
...interpreter, administered the oath in these words, which were translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language, " You shall tell the truth, and the whole...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." Entrehman's case, 1 Carr. & M. 248.d The 1 & 2 Viet. c. 105, UK enacts that " in all cases in which... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...(6) 1 Atk. 21. 141. 211 212 INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE. translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language. " You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer." § 160. Whether this deference to the conscience of witnesses would be carried so far as to allow a... | |
 | George Colwell Oke - Forms (Law) - 1856 - 664 pages
...truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me God. Id. 27. To a Chinese Witness.!— You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth ; the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer. [The witness kneels down, and a China saucer being given him, he strikes it against something and breaks... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...interpreter into the Chinese language. ' You shall tell the truth and the whole truth ; the saucer ia cracked, and if you do not tell the truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer.' " CHAPTER IV. CROSS-EXAMINATION. § 60. "We come now to the second excluding te at mentioned in §... | |
 | John Hubert Plunkett, William Hattam Wilkinson - Criminal law - 1860 - 642 pages
...Interpreter, administered the oath in these words, which were translated by the Interpreter into the Chinese language : — " You shall tell the truth, and the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." (Entrehman's case, 1 Carr. & M., 248). Other forms, — as the extinguishing a lighted lucifer, or... | |
 | John Hubert Plunkett, William Hattam Wilkinson - Criminal law - 1860 - 670 pages
...the Interpreter into the Chinese language : — " You shall tell the truth, and the whole trutli ; the saucer is cracked, and if you do not tell the truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." (Entrehman's case, 1 Carr. & M., 248). Other forms, — >as the extinguishing a lighted lucifor, or... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...The oath was then administered to him in these words, (translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language) — " You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer."* It would be an idle ceremony however to administer an oath to Assumes sense of moral one destitute of... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...then administered the oath in these words, which were translated by the interpreter into tho Chinese language, "You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer." * See S, v. Morgan, I Leach Cr. Cas. 54, In the latter case, the imposition must obviously be very... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
...The oath was then administered to him in these words (translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language) — " You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer" (1). o(*morai SCDSe ^ wou'^ ^e an idle ceremony however to administer an oath accountability, to one... | |
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You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth; the saucer is cracked, and if you do not tell the truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer. 
