 ... appears, on strict examination by the Court, to possess a sufficient knowledge, of the nature and consequences of an oath; for there is no precise or fixed rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissibility...  Elements of Medical Jurisprudence - Pagina 62door Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1825 - 640 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1792 - 638 pagina’s
...lain of the danger and impitty of talfehood, which is to be collected from their anfwers to queltions propounded to them by the Court; but if they are found incompetent, their tcftimony cannot be received. JOHN RPSTON'S CASE. At the old Bailey January Seflion, i 786, on the... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1797 - 842 pagina’s
...entertain of the danger and impiety of falfehood, which is to be collefled from their anfwers to queftions propounded to them by the court; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their teftimony cannot be received. They determined therefore, that the information... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 pagina’s
...entertain of the danger and impiety of falfehood, whfeh is to be collected from their anfwers tc* queftions propounded to them by the court : but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their teftimony cannot be received. NOTE. LEACH ftates, that it appears by a manufcript... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 pagina’s
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissibility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The JUDGES determined, therefore, that the evidence... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - 1816 - 218 pagina’s
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence: but their admissiuility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which is to lie collected from their answers to- qnestions propounded to them by the Court. Leach, 238. 3 A witness... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 834 pagina’s
...Cannot make a deed till 21. Nor enter into recognisance. bility of children depends upon the tense and reason they entertain of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which is to be collected JroiH their answers to questions propounded by the court. — In Brazier's Case, on an indictment for... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque - 1823 - 556 pagina’s
...age at which the oath of a child ought either to be admitted or rejected ;" but their admissibility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court. Brazier's case, 1 Leach's Crown La&, 237. Powell's case, ib. 128. Rex v. Trovers, 2 Strange, 700. («)... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1854 - 930 pagina’s
...Ptnoell 's case, Gould, J., on an indictment for 1 Leach's Crown Law, 110. 202 INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE. the sense and reason they entertain of the danger...them by the court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received." § 151. Brasier's case is the foundation of the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1858 - 744 pagina’s
...depended upon the sense and reason they entertained of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which was to be collected from their answers to questions propounded to them by the Court. In People v. McNair, (21 Wend., 609,) the defendant requested the Court to question a lad of eleven... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pagina’s
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissihility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The Judges determined, therefore that the evidence... | |
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