 | George Colwell Oke - Justices of the peace - 1881 - 922 pages
...translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language (Entrehman's Case, 1 Car. & M. 248) :— " You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth; the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." Deaf and dumb witnesses, as well as all others who do not Foreigners speak the English language, should... | |
 | Samuel Prentice - Criminal law - 1882 - 402 pages
...interpreter, administered the oath in these words, which were translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language : — " You shall tell the truth and the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." (6) See 1 & 2 Viet. c. 77. This statute was passed in consequence of Reg. v. Doran, 2 Moo. CC 37. See... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 pages
...the box and broke it. The officer of the court then, through an interpreter, addressed him thus : " You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth ; the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." H. v. Entrehman, 1 Car. & M. 248. If the witness does not understand the English language he must of... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 856 pages
...kneels down and breaks a china saucer against the box. The oath is then interpreted to him as follows: "You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth ; the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." The Mahomedan's oath — sworn on the Koran — is more impressive. The witness first places his right... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1888 - 830 pages
...interpreter, administered the oath in these words, which was translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language, " You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." R. v. Entrehman, Carr. & M. 248, 41 ECL The 1 & 2 Viet. c. 105, s. 1, UK, enacts that " in all cases... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...interpreter, administered the oath in these words, which were translated by the interpreter into the Chinese language: 'You shall tell the truth and the whole...truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer.' " (R. v. Enticliman, i Car. & M. 248.) ACCORDING to the French penal code, there is no age at which... | |
 | J. T. Jones - Criminal law - 1889 - 432 pages
...breaks it. The following oath is then administered which the interpreter translates into the Chinese language : You shall tell the truth, and the whole...the truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer. A MAHOMEDAN IS SWORN ON THE KORAN. The witness first placed his right hand flat upon the book, put... | |
 | Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1891 - 924 pages
...of the box and broke it. The officer of the court then, through an interpreter, addressed him thus: "You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth; the...truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer." /Í. v. Entrehman, 1 Car. & M. 248. If tho witness do not understand the English language he must of... | |
 | William Fuller Alves Boys - Coroners - 1893 - 484 pages
...china saucer being placed in his hand he breaks it. The oath is then administered as follows : — You shall tell the truth and the whole truth. The...tell the truth your soul will be cracked like the saucer.4 (/) Oath of a Mahomedan. A Mahomedan places his right hand flat upon the Koran, and the other... | |
 | James Crankshaw - Canada - 1895 - 768 pages
...against the box. The clerk then administers the oath to him (through the interpreter) in these words,—" You shall tell the truth and the whole truth ; the...truth, your soul will be cracked, like the saucer." (7) It is said that, in the Island of Hong Kong, even since it became an English possession, part of... | |
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You shall tell the truth, and the whole truth; the saucer is cracked, and if you do not tell the truth, your soul will be cracked like the saucer. 
