 | Law - 1923 - 730 pages
...but the law had been altered, and by the Evidence (Amendment) Act, 1869, it was provided by s. 3 that "The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence...be competent to give evidence in such proceeding." But the evidence given must be relevant to the issues in the trial. The evidence in this case was clearly... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Law - 1869 - 334 pages
...give evidence of, or relating to, such cruelty or desertion.f And now + parties to any proceedings instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, are made competent to give evidence of * 28 Viet., c. 43, s. 2-4, Ireland, t 22 & 23 Viet., c. 61,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 744 pages
...relaxed, until at length in 1869 was passed the 32 & 33 Viet. c. 68, which enacts (s. 3), as follows : " The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence...be competent to give evidence in such proceeding," with a proviso that no witness is bound to answer a question tending to criminate him or herself. This... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 402 pages
...of promise of marriage shall be competent to give evidence in such action." By the third section, " the parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence...be competent to give evidence in such proceeding." Is it to be held) then, that, in cases arising under the second section, the incapacity of husbands... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 1094 pages
...intention was to protect the witnesses whose (1) Which enact* — " The parties to any proceedings instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, shall bo competent to give evidence in such proceeding. Provided that no witness in any proceeding, •whether... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
...her testimony shall be corroborated by some other material evidence in support of such promise. " 3. The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence...to give evidence in such proceeding : Provided that no-witness in any proceeding, whether a party to the suit or not, shall be liable to be asked, or bound... | |
 | John Wade - Law - 1871 - 946 pages
...connection has not been consummated. The Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1869, has now provided that the parties to any proceeding instituted, in consequence...such parties shall be competent to give evidence, but no witness is liable to be asked whether he or she has committed adultery. The defendant may show,... | |
 | India, Charles Colin Macrae - Divorce - 1871 - 300 pages
...any proceeding instituted in consequence of adultery. But now by that statute the parties to any suit instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, are declared competent to give evidence in such proceeding ; provided that no witness in any proceeding,... | |
 | Edmund Thomas Bewley - Civil procedure - 1871 - 652 pages
...ki support of such promise. III. The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence Parties and of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties shall be *Ud^ hlls.V . ., . -i j. «jj AT. A bands and competent to give evidence in such proceeding : provided... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 1116 pages
...grounds of incompetency which Mr. Denman's Bill removed, were first, those of parties in any action instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, and parties to any action for breach of promise of marriage ; and second, those of persons who objected... | |
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The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, shall be competent to give evidence in such proceeding... 
