 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...wherein (as I have " before said) they are not precisely bound by " the rules of the civil law, viz. to have two " 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, if the probability of " the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...testimonies ; wherein, as I before said, they are not precisely bound to the rules of the civil law, v/::. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...circumstances 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... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...civil law, viz. to have two witnesses to prove uvery fact, unless it be in cases of treason ; iuir to reject one witness, because he is single ; or always...circumstances reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay , it may so lull out, that a jury upon their own knowledge... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1814 - 326 pages
...testimonies ; wherein, as I before said, they are not precisely bound to the rules of the civil law, viz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...circumstances 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... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1816 - 602 pages
...saidj they are not precisely bound by the •' rules of the civil law, viz. to have two wit" nesses to prove every fact, unless it be in " cases of treason,...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
...; wherein (as I have before said) they are not precisely bound by the rules of the civil law, viz,, to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...circumstances 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... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1826 - 326 pages
...testimonies; wherein (as I have before said) they are not precisely bound by the rules of the civil law, uiz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...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... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 364 pages
...witnesses, and force and efficacy of their testimonies ; they are not bound to the rules of civil law, to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...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
...testimonies; wherein (as I have before said) they are not precisely bound by the rules of the civil law, viz. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless...circumstances 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,... | |
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I have before said) they are not precisely bound by the rules of 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 to believe two witnesses, if the... 
