| Canada - 1921 - 804 pages
...child of tender years, who is tendered as a witness, does not, in the opinion of the court or justices, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of...evidence and understands the duty of speaking the truth. 2. But no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence, unless the testimony admitted by virtue... | |
| American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...child of tender years, who is tendered as a witness, does not, in the opinion of the court or justices, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate and, as the Society regards them, natural and... | |
| Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...child of tender years, who is tendered as a witness, does not, in the opinion of the court or justices, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate and, as the Society regards them, natural and... | |
| Henry Edward Manning (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1886 - 60 pages
...child of tender years, who is tendered as a witness, does not, in the opinion of the court or justices, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate, and, as the Society regards them, natural and... | |
| Sir Charles Stewart Loch - Charities - 1890 - 224 pages
...such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth. And the evidence of such child, though not given on oath or affirmation, but otherwise taken and reduced... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Law - 1890 - 498 pages
...be trusted, and therefore ought not to be received. He might adopt the view that where a child is ' of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth,' the child's evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth ; this seems... | |
| Law - 1890 - 692 pages
...he trusted, and therefore ought not to 1* received. He might adopt the view that where a child iq " of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth," the child's evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth : this seems... | |
| Canada - Criminal law - 1891 - 582 pages
...child of tender years who is tendered as a witness, does not, in the opinion of the court or justices, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of...evidence and understands the duty of speaking the truth : 2. But no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence, Must be corunless the testimony... | |
| Western Australia - Law - 1902 - 726 pages
...tender years may be received, although not given on oath, if, in the opinion of the Court or justices, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : But no person may be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted by virtue of this section,... | |
| Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 822 pages
...though not given upon oath, if in the opinion of the Court or justices, as the case may be, the witness is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth. The reception of the evidence so admitted is however hedged in by two safeguards : (I.) No person shall... | |
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