 | International law - 1845 - 550 pages
...subpoenas for witnesses into any other district, provided that, in civil causes, the witness do not live at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial :) ; and in this country the legislature has provided, that the service of a subpoena or other process... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 756 pages
...subpoenas for witnesses into any other district, provided that, in civil causes, the witness do not live at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial (I) ; and in this country, the legislature has provided that the service of a subpoena or other process... | |
 | H. G. O. COLBY - Civil procedure - 1848 - 550 pages
...subpoenas for witnesses into any other district, provided that, in civil cases, the witness do not live at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial. Where a party has taken the proper measures to secure the attendance of a witness, a capias is issued... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - Admiralty - 1850 - 608 pages
...with.1 A deposition de bene esse may be taken and used in a civil cause, when the witness lives at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial, although his residence be out of the District in which is the place of trial ; and a decision of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 714 pages
...Peters, 617. The court say : ' It was sufficiently shown, at least prima facie, that the witness lived at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial. This is a fact proper for the inquiry of the officer who took the deposition, and he has certified... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...attendance is required in criminal causes. In civil causes, the attendance of witnesses who do not reside at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial may be compelled, although they reside in a state or district other than that in which a trial is to... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 790 pages
...for witnesses into any other districts, provided that, in civil causes, the witness does not live at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial, (c) A subp&na extends a protecting influence over the witness when it has been served upon him ; like... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...Norfolk." It was sufficiently shown by this certificate, at least prima facie, that the witness lived at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial. The Patapseo Ins. Co. v. Southgate et al., 5 Peters, 604. 9. The provisions of the thirteenth section... | |
 | Michael Thompson - Law - 1863 - 472 pages
...of any witness is necessary in any civil cause in any court of the United Slates, who shall lire at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial, or is bound on a voyage to sea, or is about to go out of the United States, or out of the District,... | |
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The testimony of any witness may be taken in any civil cause depending in a district or circuit court by deposition de bene esse, when the witness lives at a greater distance from the place of trial than one hundred miles, or is bound on a voyage to sea,... 
