 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 812 pages
...agreement referred to in the question originally proposed by the counsel on the other side, was or was not in writing ; and, if the witness answers that it was...the course that ordinarily takes place -on questions relating to contracts or agreements, we, each of us, think, that if such a question were propounded... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...is stopped, because the writing must be itself produced. " My lords, therefore, although we caiinot answer your lordships' question distinctly in the...the course that ordinarily takes place on questions relating to contracts or agreements; we each of us think that if such a question were propounded before... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1821 - 694 pages
...the writing must he itselr produced. My lords, therefore, although we cannot answer your lordship*' question distinctly in the affirmative or the negative,...which requires the writing itself to be produced, and witli reference to the course that ordinarily takes place on questions rehitive to contracts or agreements... | |
 | 1821 - 716 pages
...side, was or was not in writing; and if the witness answers that it was in writing, thru the inquiry is stopped, because the writing must be itself produced....his hands, and ask him whether it be his writing); c6nsidering the question proposed to us by your lordships with reference to that principle of law which... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) - 1821 - 718 pages
...cannot properly be asked on cross-examination whether he has written luch a thing (the proper'course being to put the writing into his hands, and ask him...considering the question proposed to us by your lordships 'vith reference to that prinr-iple of law which requires the writing itself to be produced, and with... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1831 - 788 pages
...properly be asked, on cross-examination, whether he has written such a thing ; the proper course is to put the writing into his hands, and ask him whether it is his writing. Queen's ease, 2 B. and It. 293. If, on cross-examination, a witness admits a letter... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 586 pages
...were of opinion, that the witness could not properly be asked, on cross-examination, whether he had written such a thing, the proper course being to put...into his hands, and ask him whether it be his writing ; they held also, that if the witness were asked, whether he had represented such a thing, they should... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...side, was or was not in writing ; and, if the witness answers that it was in writing, then the inquiry is stopped, because the writing must be itself produced....writing into his hands, and ask him whether it be his 544 SECONDARY RULES OF EVIDENCE. writing,) considering the question proposed to us by your lordships,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...and were of opinion that the witness could not properly be asked on cross-examination, whether he had written such a thing, the proper course being to put...the writing into his hands, and ask him whether it he his writing. They held, also, that if the witness were asked whether he had represented such a thing,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...and were of opinion that the witness could not properly be asked on cross-examination, whether he had written such a thing, the proper course being to put the writing into his hands, and asked him whether it be his writing. They held, also, that if the witness were asked whether he had... | |
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Lordships' question distinctly in the affirmative or the negative, for the reason I have given, namely, the want of an established practice referring to such a question by counsel; yet, as we are all of opinion that the witness cannot properly be asked,... 
