| Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be " in cases of treason, nor to reject one wit" n«ss bpcause he is single, or always to " believe two witnesses,...simply by witnesses, but by Jury : " nay, it may so fall out, that a jury upon " their own knowledge may know a thing '• to be false, that a witness... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...civil law, v/::. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason ; nor to reject one witness, because he is single ; or always...simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay , it may so fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know a thing to be false, that a witness swore to... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - 1814 - 326 pages
...the civil law, viz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...here simply by witnesses, but by jury: nay, it may so fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know a thing to be false that a witness swore to... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1816 - 602 pages
...civil law, viz. to have two wit" nesses to prove every fact, unless it be in " cases of treason, nor to reject one witness " because he is single, or always...the fact does " upon other circumstances reasonably encoun" ter them; for the trial is not here simply by " witnesses, but by jury : nay, it may so fall... | |
| Matthew Hale - Civil law - 1820 - 582 pages
...(j);" unless it be in cases of treason (r) ; — nor to reject one witness because he is single ; nor always to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does, npon other circumstances, reasonably encounter them (.<) : for the of judgment, that when tkey return... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 444 pages
...the civil law, viz,, to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...here simply by witnesses, but by jury; nay, it may so fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know a thing to be false, that a witness swore to... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1826 - 326 pages
...the civil law, uiz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...probability of the fact does, upon other circumstances, reasunably encounter them; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury : nay, it may... | |
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1118 pages
...civil law — riz., to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...circumstances, 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,... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 364 pages
...rules of civil law, to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason ; nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...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... | |
| Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...the civil law, viz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always...simply by witnesses, but by jury : nay, it may so fall out, that a jury, upon their own knowledge, may know a thing to be false, 179 that a witness swore... | |
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