| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...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...having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...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...happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...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; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...to be received with great caution, The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and...happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement completely at variance... | |
| William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed,...happens also that the witness^ by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party... | |
| Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...from the defendants; yet it is said by legal authors that such evidence consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the partyhimself may not have exprewed his own mean ing, or witness may have misunderstood him or failed... | |
| 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 - 1890 - 816 pages
...as it does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
| Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...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...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
| Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...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...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...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 ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
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