| Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1040 pages
...Vlasek v. Wilson. has been said that mere verbal admissions should be received with caution. That such evidence, 'consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake' (1 Greenleaf, Evidence, 200), although admissions, deliberately made and precisely identified,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1164 pages
...resulting trust. In 1 Greenl. Ev. § 200, the author says: "With respect to all verbal admissions, It may be observed that they ought to be received...mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to mud> Imperfection and mistake; the party himsel/ either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed... | |
| Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Real property - 1897 - 800 pages
...established. Touching the subject of such admissions, and the weight to be given them, Greeuleaf states: " The evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself either being misinformed or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1897 - 914 pages
...District Judge, referred in this connection to § 100 of Greenleaf on Evidence, that all verbal admissions ought to be received with great caution. " The evidence, consisting as it docs in the mere repetitions of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...of evidence are deserving of great consideration. He says : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself cither being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1256 pages
...evidence, Is generally entitled to but little weight." Cornet v. Bertelsmann, Gl Mo., loc. cit 127. "The evidence consisting, as it does, in the mere...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party I himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed himself,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1164 pages
...instruction requested by defendant was refused, 'viz.: "(7) With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being nilsinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 996 pages
...extent embodied in this instruction, is in full as follows: With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received...oral' statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the Feb. 1905] CASTNEB v. RAILED AD Co. 585 party himself either being misinformed, or... | |
| M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...Admissions may be implied from assumed character, language, &nd conduct. (Sec. 195.) Verbal admissions ought to be received with great caution. The evidence,...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake. (Sec. 200.) Of the effect of admissions when proved, the rule is that the whole admission... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 964 pages
...admissions or statements made by one and repeated by another, they ought to be received by the jury with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
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