| Jean Louis de Lolme - Great Britain - 1775 - 462 pages
...reafonably encounter them; for the Trial " is not here fimply by witnefles, but by • nay> it may fo fall out, that a Jury " upon their own knowledge may know a " thing to be falfe that a vvitnefs fwore " to be true, or may know a witnefs to be " incompetent or incredible,... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...encounter them ; for the trial is " not here simply by witnesses, but by Jury : " nay, it may so fall out, that a jury upon " their own knowledge may know...him — and may give their verdict " accordingly." If the verdict pronounces no* guilty, the prisoner is set at liberty, and cannot, on any pretence,... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay , it may so fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know...accordingly." It is a striking and pleasing observation of i >e Lolme, that " the consequence of the institution of Juries is, that no man in England, ever meets... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1816 - 602 pages
...encoun" ter them; for the trial is not here simply by " witnesses, but by jury : nay, it may so fall " out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may " know...witness swore " to be true, or may know a witness to be in" competent or incredible, though nothing be " objected against him—and may give their ver" diet... | |
| Matthew Hale - Law - 1820 - 580 pages
...in Pref. 10. trial is NOT here simply BY WITNF.SSKS, but by jury. Nay, it may so fall out, that the jury upon their OWN knowledge, may know a thing- to...against him ; and may give their verdict accordingly (/). Twelflhly, when the whole twelve men are AGREED, then, and not till then, is their verdict to... | |
| Matthew Hale - Civil law - 1820 - 582 pages
...in I'ref. 10. trial is NOT here simply BY WITNESSES, bnt by jury. Nay, it may so fall out, that the jury upon their OWN knowledge, may know a thing to be FALSE, that a witness swore to be true; or may kuow a witness to be incompetent, or incredible, though nothing be objected against him ; and may give... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 444 pages
...reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury; nay, it may so fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know...against him — and may give their verdict accordingly." * If the verdict pronounces not guilty, the prisoner is set at liberty, and cannot, on any pretence,... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1826 - 326 pages
...encounter them; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury : nay, it may so fall out, ihat a jury, upon their own knowledge, may know a thing...may know a witness to be incompetent or incredible, thongh nothing be objected against him— and may gire their verdict accordingly.* If the verdict pronounces... | |
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not hero simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay, it may so fall out that a jury, upon their own knowledge, may know...against him — and may give their verdict accordingly." In all cases where a jury is employed, then, they alone determine which party has the truth upon his... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 364 pages
...if the probability of the fact does upon other circumstances reasonably encounter them. It may fall out that a jury, upon their own knowledge, may know a thing to be false which a witness has sworn to be true; or may know a witness to be incompetent or incredible though... | |
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