 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 pages
...vindicatory of the code. Among the most striking rules of the whole code is the one which declares that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded...reason of his interest in the event of the action, not applicable, however, to a party to the action, nor to any person for whose immediate benefit it... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1845 - 878 pages
...or surrender, unless the same shall be made by deed. By stat. 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, s. 1, which enacts, that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded, by reason of incapacity from crime, or interest, from giving evidence, it is provided that this act shall not render... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 810 pages
...husband cannot, in such a case, be a witness either for or against the wife." By the Code of New York, " No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded...reason of his interest in the event of the action." .In White v. Sta/ord, 38 Barbour, 420, the plaintiff called his wife as a witness. The court said .... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1846 - 914 pages
...perjury. 6 G. 4, c. 25, s. 2; 9 G. 4, c. 32, ss. 3, 4. But now, by the stat. 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, s. 1, no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence, either in person, or by deposition, according... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1881 - 876 pages
...act of 18Gt> was passed, and notice the broad and sweeping terms in which it is declared in said act that " no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, or from being a party, from giving evidence, either in person or... | |
 | Missouri - 1848 - 718 pages
...the purpose of suppressing truth and increasing litigation, have been abolished. The code declares that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of tlie actisn. This r-ule, however, does not apply to a party to the action, nor to any person for whose... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1848 - 488 pages
...indorsement was completed]. The other point turns on Lord Denman's Act, the 6 & 7 Viet., c. 85, which enacts that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Ecclesiastical law - 1848 - 724 pages
...absolutely necessary for the purposes of justice in this cause ; and that the Act 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, enacts that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of interest from giving evidence, with the proviso that the Act shall not render competent any party to... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...to the action, nor to any person for whose immediate benefit it is prosecuted or defended. § 352. No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded, by reason of a sentence for felony. The abrogation of the rule, which excludes a witnesss, who has an interest in... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1849 - 404 pages
...plaintiffs claim that sections 351 and 352 make him a competent witness. Section 351 is as follows:—"No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action." This section is qualified by section 352, which provides that—" The last section shall not apply... | |
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No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. 
