 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1904 - 478 pages
...juratores." Even so late as Lord Male's time, who died in 1676, we find that distinguished writer saying:95 "For the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 858 pages
...Even so late as Lord Hale's time, who died in 1676, we find that distinguished writer saying: 95 " For the trial is not here simply by witnesses, but 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... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Law - 1971 - 213 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 the Jury upon their own Knowledge may know a Thing to be false that a Witness swore... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 960 pages
...knowledge or belief. Lord Chief Justice Hale expressed himself on this subject in tho following terms : " 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 a thing to be false that a witness swore to... | |
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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... 
