 | Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz - Evidence (Law) - 1914 - 996 pages
...a statute of exclusion, intended to restrict section 399, which provides that 'no person offered as witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.' It must, as such, be strictly construed. Nothing may be included under its provisions but what is clearly... | |
 | North Carolina, Thomas Jefferson Jerome, Edward Columbus Jerome - Criminal law - 1916 - 1058 pages
...688; 50 SE 765. 11. COMFKTENCY OF WITNESSES. Sec. 327 (1628). Not incapacitated by interest or crime. No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from interest or crime, from giving evidence either in person or by deposition, according... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1919 - 596 pages
...opportunity of gathering therefrom as much truth as possible. Thus it has been provided by statute that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded, by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence (a). However, even now a person under sentence... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 784 pages
...lifting of this disqualification as to witnesses began by sec. 300, ch. 120, Laws 1856, providing: "No person offered as a witness shall be excluded...reason of his interest in the event of the action," but the following section thereto provided that such sec. 300 should not apply to a party to the action... | |
 | South Dakota. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1908 - 742 pages
...the wife of plaintiff was a competent witness for him under Rev. Code Civ. Proc. § 486, providing that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of being a husband or wife of a party. (Opinion filed, July 11, 1906.) Appeal from Circuit Court, Union... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1848 - 1086 pages
...plaintiff moved for a new trial, and referred to Lord Denmau's Act, the <> and 7 Viet., c. 85, which euacts 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... | |
 | Charles McClain - Chinese - 1994 - 508 pages
...• Id. at 145. 7 Act of April 29, 1851, ch. S, 55 392-93, 395, [1851] Cal. Stats. 113-14: "{ 392. No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by...reason of his interest in the event of the action or proceeding .... 5 393. [The above] shall not apply to a party in such a proceeding, nor to any person... | |
 | Law - 1889 - 910 pages
...incorporated in section 398 of the original Code of Procedure adopted in 1848. It was thereby provided that "no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the aclion." By section 399, however, it was provided that the previous section should not apply to a party... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1880 - 576 pages
...contrary to the rule in the case of all other offences. But by the statute 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." I do not find the statement ascribed to Mr.... | |
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No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. 
