 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...that the party making them was in extremis at the time, and when all hope of tills world had passed; " when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. Л situation so solemn and so awful Is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - Criminal procedure - 1894 - 1062 pages
...the time and when all hope of this world had passed; when every motive to falsehood is supposed to be silenced and the mind is induced by the most powerful...to speak the truth. "A situation so solemn and so awfnl is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive... | |
 | James Kirby - Law - 1897 - 452 pages
...was stated in Woodeock'i case, by Lord Chief Baron Eyre, to be this : " That such declarations are made in extremity, when the party is at the point...speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful i considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 920 pages
...hearsay evidence is inadmissible, is thus clearly stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre: ' That they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is...falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by tbe most powerful considerations, to speak the truth: a situation so solemn and so awful is considered... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 260 pages
...»t n. 002: Now the general principle on which this specit'* of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of tills world is gone, wheu every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
 | Criminal law - 1898 - 680 pages
...follows :— "The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is...silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful consideration to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 964 pages
...that hearsay evidence is inadmissible, is thus clearly stated by lord chief baron Eyre "That they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is...to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, bv the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth • a situation so solemn and so awful is considered... | |
 | Harry Clay Underhill - Evidence, Criminal - 1898 - 1122 pages
...is wholly ab°"The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced ; and the mind is... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...she died. Kow the general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted ia. that they arc declarations made in extremity, when the party is...death, and when every hope' of this world is gone; w'heu every motive tu lalschuod is silenced, niul the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1122 pages
...declarations made in extremity, under a sense of impending death, and, therefore, when every hope of the world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced and the mind is induced by the most powerful consideration to speak the truth— a situation so solemn and awful Is considered by the law as creating... | |
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The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the... 
