 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...— is, that they ought to be received with great caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...treatise upon the law of evidence, (Greenl. Ev. 233,) remarks: " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...the mere suggestions of counsel (/). § 622. With respect to all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...Greenleaf, in his treatise upon the law of evidence, remarks : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received...evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself, either being misinformed... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...there is a With respect to all verbal admissions says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200)it may be.observed that they ought to be received with great caution....the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning or the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...subject. 1 read from Greenlcaf's Evidence, I. 258, § 200, " with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning,... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...this subject. 1 read from Greenleaf's Evidence, L 258, §200, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...received with caution. Taylor says, § 622. " With respect to all vtr&al admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed... | |
 | Charles Edwin Wilbour - Trials (Murder) - 1862 - 252 pages
...Prof. Greenleaf, of Massachusetts. I read from section 200 : "With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...received with caution*. Taylor says, § 622. " With respect to all verbal admisiioa» it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed... | |
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With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake... 
