| Crime and criminals - 1792 - 566 pages
...befor* ihedied. New the general principle on which this Ipecies of evidence is admitted is, that thty are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point ot d-rat-h, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every iinotive t? falfehood is filenced,... | |
| Charles Viner - Law - 1801 - 484 pages
...of a perfon who has received a mortal wound, which is admitted on this general principle, that being made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falfehood is filenced,and the mind is induced... | |
| Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 420 pages
...fhe had received the mortal wounds, and before fhe died. Now the general rule on which this fpecies of evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone 5 when every motive to falfehood is filent, and the mind is induced by the moft... | |
| Thomas Peake - Evidence (Law) - 1804 - 534 pages
...perfon making it was not formally fworn ; for as 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... | |
| Thomas Leach - Criminal law - 1815 - 706 pages
...this species of Trials, lei. evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in See Johnson's extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when KiNcTjomr, evei7 hope of this world is gone : when every motive to falseAct the sth, hood is silenced,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 972 pages
...Eyre, CB, the principle upon which this species of evidence is 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 motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...hearsay. Such de- Absence ni inclarations, says 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 motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...Eyre, CB that the general principle upon which evidence of this kind is 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 motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 662 pages
...presence. The principle on which this evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made m exlrcmis, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silent, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...on which this species of evidence is admitted, was stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre to be this — " that they are declarations made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, aud when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind... | |
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