| 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,... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...suggestions of counsel (/). § 622. With respect to all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution....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... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...evidence, (Greenl. Ev. 233,) remarks: " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received with, great caution....of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...treatise upon the law of evidence, remarks : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution,...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... | |
| Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 874 pages
...erroneous. With respect to all verbal admissions, says Greenleaf (vol. 1, p. 200) it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution....party himself either being misinformed, or not having elearly expressed his own meaning or the witness having understood him. It frequently happens also... | |
| Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...relate the very word which they heard 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... | |
| 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 - 300 pages
...from Greenlcaf's Evidence, I. 258, § 200, " with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution....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
...from Greenleaf's Evidence, L 258, §200, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution....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
...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 caution....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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