 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Bushrod Washington - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 672 pages
...be left to decide, whether these circumstances are proved by credible testimony. Probable cause, is a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused was guilty. The declaration stated, the writ on which the plaintiff was... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 712 pages
...warrant. But good faith merely is not sufficient to protect the defendant from liability. There must be a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by...themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the plaintiff was guilty of the crime with which he was charged, to make out such a probable cause as will... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 806 pages
...this question, it is necessary to bear in mind that to constitute probable cause there must be such a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves, to war110 189 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Dec. rant an ordinarily cautious person in believing that the person... | |
 | John Duer, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 738 pages
...Den. R. 655 ; Bac. Abr. Error, MI) II. There was reasonable and probable cause for the prosecution. Probable cause is defined to be a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances, sufficient to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person is guilty of the offence charged,... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...testimony. Mans v. Dupont et al., 3 Wash. С. С. R. 31. 9. Probable cause is a reasonable ground for suspicion, supported by circumstances, sufficiently...strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused is guilty. Ibid. 10. Where goods have been purchased to be paid for on delivery,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 724 pages
...cause for the prosecution. The authorities are very explicit as to what constitutes probable cause. It is defined to be a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong to warrant a belief of guilt. (Foshay v. Ferguson, 2 Denio, 619.) It does not depend upon the actual... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...the definition of Washington, J., in Munns v. Dupont, 3 Wash. CC 31, of probable cause. It is "such reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing the party accused to be guilty." It is wholly immaterial whether the party was guilty or... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Civil procedure - 1871 - 952 pages
...be left to decide, whether these circumstances are proved by credible testimony. Probable cause, is a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused was guilty. THIS was an action before Mr. Justice WASHINGTON, at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 660 pages
...fact for him in showing probable cause or in disproving the want of it ; but he must also show such reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in that belief, before his belief can become his vindication or shield. If he should show such ground... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...to the want of probable cause in any case is a question jf law for the court: Id. Probable cause, is a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused was guilty: /•/. PARTNERSHIP. Sights of Survivor. — A sole surviving... | |
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Emery, supra, probable cause is held to be "a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the party is guilty of the offense with which he is charged", and in... 
