 | 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...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
...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...also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere...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,... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200)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 or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200) 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 or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not havini clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | 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
...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...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
...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...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
...all vtr&al admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere...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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...all verbal admisiioa» it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere...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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The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him.... 
