 The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and...  A Compendium of the Law of Evidence - Page 16by Thomas Peake - 1804 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Crime and criminals - 1792 - 566 pages
...party is at the point ot d-rat-h, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every iinotive t? falfehood is filenced, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to (peak the truth : actuation fo foIcmn, and fo awful, is conddered by the Uw as cre-ating aa vbligation... | |
 | Charles Viner - Law - 1801 - 484 pages
...on this general principle, that being made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falfehood is filenced,and the mind is induced by the moil powerful confederations to fpeak the truth; a fituation... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 418 pages
...on which this fpecres of evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made in extremity, ' when the party is at the point of death, and when...world is gone ; when every motive to falfehood is 'filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth. A fituation... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 420 pages
...rule on which this fpecies of evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone 5 when every motive to falfehood is filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1828 - 836 pages
...principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 972 pages
...upon which this species of evidence is admitted is, that these declarations are made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...hearsay. Such de- Absence ni inclarations, says Lord Chief Justice Eyre, are made in extremity, lctest' when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 662 pages
...presence. The principle on which this evidence is admitted, is, that they are declarations made m exlrcmis, when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silent, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...principle upon which evidence of this kind is admitted, is, that it is of declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when...every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 824 pages
...principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the... | |
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