 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 674 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... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1839 - 366 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... | |
 | George Bowyer - Constitutional law - 1841 - 742 pages
...respects, the same as that upon civil actions. But it will suffice to say here, that the jury are not bound to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason (for the law has provided that restriction as a security to the subject in those state-prosecutions),1... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 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... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...witnesses to prove every fact, unies« it he in cases of treason, nor to reject one witness because he U single ; or always to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does not upon other circumstances reasonably encounter them ; for the trial is not here simply by witnesses,... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1853 - 416 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... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1853 - 438 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 - 1853 - 474 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...before said, they are not precisely bound to the rules of the civil lav, viz, to have two wit ne sue 8 to prove every fact, unless it be in cases of treason,...circumstances 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...bound to the rules of the civil law, via. to have two witnesses to prove every fact, unless it be iu cases of treason, nor to reject one witness, because...circumstances 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... | |
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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... 
