 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...— is, that they ought to be received with great caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral...having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...suggestions of counsel (/). § 622. With respect to all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...upon the law of evidence, remarks : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution, The...evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself, either being misinformed... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...there is a With respect to all verbal admissions says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200)it may be.observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 874 pages
...erroneous. With respect to all verbal admissions, says Greenleaf (vol. 1, p. 200) it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having elearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...relate the very word which they heard from the defendants; yet it is said by legal authors that such evidence consisting as it does in the mere repetition...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the partyhimself may not have exprewed his own mean ing, or witness may have misunderstood him or failed... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 816 pages
...as it does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...Greenleaf's Evidence, L 258, §200, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...Greenlcaf's Evidence, I. 258, § 200, " with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...caution. Taylor says, § 622. " With respect to all vtr&al admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
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... being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also... 
