 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but *yj*ry i nay, i* may BO fall out, that a jury upon their own knowledge may know...witness to be incompetent or incredible, though nothing he objected against him — and may give their verdict accordingly." It is a striking and pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but by jxry; 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 be tr'if , or may know a witness to be incompetent or incredible, though nothing be objected against him... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1853 - 572 pages
...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 nothing be objected agains: him, and may give their verdict accordingly." The effect of the verdict of a jury is final... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1854 - 288 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... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - World history - 1857 - 290 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 864 pages
...equitable decision thing to be false, that a witness sw ore to of suits and prosecutions. The laws of be true, or may know a witness to be incompetent or incredible, though nothing England have frequently been made the subject of »ever» animadversion ; and it is , be objected against... | |
 | John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - Law - 1869 - 686 pages
...is not here simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay, it may so fall out that a jury, upon their ovm knowledge, may know a thing to be false that a witness...though nothing be objected against him, and may give the verdict accordingly " (Hale, Hut. Cam. Lav, cited in De Lolnu on the Canst., c. 13). which is of... | |
 | John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - Law - 1869 - 686 pages
...simply by witnesses, but by jury ; nay, it may so fall out that a jury, upon their own knoicledyc, may know a thing to be false that a witness swore...though nothing be objected against him, and may give the verdict accordingly " (Hale, Hitt. Com. Law, cited iu De Lolme on. the Const., c. 13). which is... | |
 | Frederick Wicks - Administrative law - 1872 - 236 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." In all cases where a. jury is employed, then, they alone determine which party has the truth upon his... | |
 | Frederick Wicks - Administrative law - 1872 - 278 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." In all cases where a. jury is employed, then, they alone determine which party has the truth upon his... | |
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... unless it be in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he is single, or always to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does upon other circumstances reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses,... 
