 | Charles Viner - 1801 - 484 页
...the moil powerful confederations to fpeak the truth; a fituation fo folemn and awful is confidercd by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is impofed by a pofitive oath impofed in a court of juftice. The other fpecies of evidence is, the examination... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 页
...moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth. A fituation fo folemn and fo awful, is confidered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is impofed by a pofitive oath, adminiflered in a court of juftice. But a difficulty arifes with refpect... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 页
...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 falfehood is 'filent, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth.... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1804 - 534 页
...was obferved by Lord CB Eyre in a cafe of this kind, " when the party is at the' point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falfehood is filenced, and the mind is induced by the moft powerful confiderations to fpeak the truth... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 页
...is " well expressed by Lord Chief Justice Eyre, " every hope of this world is gone, every mo" tive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is " induced...most powerful considerations " to speak the truth." (Vide Melun's dying declaration in the fifth act of this play.) "A " situation so solemn and so awful,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 666 页
...observed by Lord CB Eyre in a case of this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every...equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a court of justice." But in cases where the party making the declaration- is so infamous... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 668 页
...observed by Lord CB Eyre in a case of this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is . fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situa-^... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1824 - 838 页
...is si- chap. I. lenced, arid the mind is induced by the most powerful considera- l>y¡»g tions tu speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so awful,...equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a Court of Justice." But in cases where the party making the declaration is su infamous... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 页
...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...equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a court of justice, (o) It is therefore evident, Deceased that declarations, though... | |
 | 1883 - 648 页
...patient is at the point of death, and when every motive to falsehood is silenced. A situation so solemn is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that imposed by an oath in court. But in order that such 'declarations may be admitted, it is essential... | |
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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... 
