 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. It was concurred in by the following vote : YEAS — Mesera. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness.... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...be no exclusion of any witness on account of color. Mr. Huckalew moved to add: Nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. Which was agreed to; and the amendment as amended was agreed to — yeas 22, aye 16, as follows: YEAS... | |
 | Commercial law - 1868 - 988 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried. No. 478. — JULY 4, 18C4. CHAP. CCXUX. — An Act further to regulate the Carriage of Passengers in... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 950 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried." 2 And in 1865,3 this aci was amended by a proviso, " That in actions by or against executors, administrators,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - Law - 1869 - 680 pages
...there shall be no exclusion of any witness on 13 atat. 881. amount Of color; nor, in civil actions, Kay & Brother"; Brightly Frederick Charles" Frederick Ch (6) s March ISM { l. 7. In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judg18... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...United Siatei there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. It was concurred in by the following vote: YEAS — Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness,... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...the other party. The provision of the act of congress upon the subject is as follows : " Section 858. In the courts of the United States no witness shall...is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried: Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgments... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...that in courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness in civil actions, " because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried ;" and tho amendatnr^y act of March 3, 1865, making certain exceptions to the rule, applies to civil... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...Congress of July 2d, 1864, which says that there shall be no exclusion of any witness in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried does not give capacity to a wife to testify in favor of her husband . Lucas v. Brooks, 436. 3. Where,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, thereupon moved to amend the amendment by adding, "nor in civil actions, because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Then came the following passage. MR. GRATZ BROWN (to Mr. SUMNER). That is just what other people say... | |
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Statutes, which provides that "in the courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Provided, that in actions by or against... 
