 | Howard Hyde Russell - Apologetics - 1893 - 284 pages
...print the words of one of the Chief Justices of England upon this point: "Dying declarations are those 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 the mind is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1224 pages
...principle, as stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre, 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 the mind is... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1026 pages
...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 the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situation so solemn, and so awful,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1895 - 894 pages
...declarations. The principle on which evidence of this description is admitted is " that such declarations are 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 the mind is... | |
 | John Henry Gillett - Evidence (Law) - 1897 - 458 pages
...is that it is of declarations made in extremity, when the party is at Jhe point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the most powerful considerations, to" speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 260 pages
...Leach, »t n. 002: Now the general principle on which this specit'* 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 tills world is gone, wheu every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 920 pages
...law, that hearsay evidence is inadmissible, is thus clearly stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre: ' 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 the mind is... | |
 | James Kirby - Law - 1897 - 452 pages
...was stated in Woodeock'i case, by Lord Chief Baron Eyre, to be this : " That such declarations are 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 the mind is... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 964 pages
...of law, that hearsay evidence is inadmissible, is thus clearly stated by lord chief baron Eyre "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 the mind is... | |
 | Criminal law - 1898 - 680 pages
...CC, 502, as follows :— "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 the mind is... | |
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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... 
