 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 728 pages
...handwriting, except where the witness 1837. sees the document written, is in its nature comparison. Il is the belief which a witness entertains upon comparing...periods, and other circumstances, under which the witness has seen the party write, but it will be sufficient knowledge to admit the evidence of the witness,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 762 pages
...he was right in so doing : All evidence of handwriting, except where the witness sees the document written, is in its nature comparison. It is the belief...writing in question with an exemplar in his mind derived SUCKEHMORE. ffom &ome previous knowledge. That knowledge may have been acquired either by seeing the... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - Arbitration and award - 1842 - 1072 pages
...DOC d. Mudd sees the document written, is in its nature comparison. It is the belief v- Suckermore. which a witness entertains, upon comparing the writing...periods, and other circumstances under which the witness has seen the party write; but it will be sufficient knowledge to admit the evidence of the witness... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1844 - 910 pages
...references to all the authorities will be found. " The knowledge of handwriting may be acquired cither by seeing the party write, in which case it will be...periods and other circumstances under which the witness has seen the party write, but it will be sufficient knowledge to admit the evidence of the witness... | |
 | Francis Vesey, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1844 - 498 pages
...v. Homans, 14 Maine, 478. (a) All evidence of handwriting, except where the witness saw the document written, is, in its nature, comparison. It is the...entertains, upon comparing the writing in question, with its exemplar in his mind, derived from some previous knowledge. Upon this subject of the comparison... | |
 | William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd - Court rules - 1845 - 1268 pages
...v. Fry, Ry. & M. NPC 90 ; Lewis v. Sapio, M. & M. 49. WANT OF LEGAL STAMP. the witness entertains on comparing the writing in question with an exemplar in his mind derived from some previous knowledge "(a)Stamp* on Instruments.] — Before concluding all which space admits respecting documentary evidence,... | |
 | International law - 1845 - 542 pages
...saw it written, is in its nature comparison, — it being the belief which a witness entertains, when comparing the writing in question with an exemplar in his mind, derived from some previous knowledge 6 , — yet the law will not allow the witness, or even When witnesses are called to speak to handwriting,... | |
 | International law - 1845 - 532 pages
...saw it written, is in its nature comparison, — it being the belief which a witness entertains, when comparing the writing in question with an exemplar in his mind, derived from some previous knowledge 6, — yet the law will not allow the witness, or even See Doe v. Suckermore, 5 A. & E. 731., per Patteson... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 756 pages
...either wrote the document himself, or saw it written, is, in its nature, comparison ; — it being the belief which a witness entertains, upon comparing the writing in question with an exemplar formed in his mind from some previous knowledge (</); — yet the law will not allow the witness, or... | |
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That knowledge may have been acquired, either by seeing the party write, in which case it will be stronger or weaker according to the number of times and the periods and other circumstances under which the witness has seen the party write ; but it will... 
