 | Aaron Burr - 1808 - 552 páginas
...weakest and most suspicious of all testimony, ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces; seldom remembered accurately...and, incapable in their nature of being disproved by negative evidence." Which doctrine is confirmed by Foster, who expresses his opinion of this species... | |
 | 1808 - 652 páginas
...weakest and most suspicious of all testimony, ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces; seldom remembered accurately...and incapable in their nature of being disproved by negative evidence." Which doctrine is confirmed by Foster, who expresses his opinion of this species... | |
 | John Andrew Graham - 1812 - 96 páginas
...suspicious of all testimony ; ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes 'promises of favor, or menaces, seldom remembered accurately, or reported...nature, of being disproved by other negative evidence.. The witness says himself, that he obtained this confession from the prisoner, under his solemn promise... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 638 páginas
...Justice Rlackstoiie in his Commentaries says, ' Words are the weakest and most ' suspicious testimony, seldom .remembered ' accurately, or reported with...precision, ' and incapable in their nature of being 1 disproved by other negative evidence.' That incomparable judge and writer, who at once breathes the... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - 1816 - 1048 páginas
...liable fo be obUrined by artifice, false hopes, pr mise» of fa\our, or menaces ; seldom remembtrtd accurately or reported with due precision ; and incapable...nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. By the same statute ^ ft'. III. it is declared that both witnesses must be to the same overt net of... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1819 - 736 páginas
...evidence under this statute ; and, indeed, even in cases of felony, at the eмнимом law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony...with due precision, and incapable in their nature of bemg disproved by other negative evidence." Gentlemen, I again state that I do not now con tend about... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 páginas
...most suspicious ot all testimony, ever liable to be obtained by artifice, f»l»e hope«, proc mises of favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately,...nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. The human mind, under the pressure of calamity, is easily QJJ^ jjv. ^ seduced, and liable in the alarm... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 páginas
...weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ; ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces ; seldom remembered...nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. By the same statute 7 W.III. it is declared, that both witnesses must be to the same overt act of treason,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 páginas
...weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ; ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces ; seldom remembered...or reported with due precision ; and incapable in thennature of being disproved by other negative evidence. By the same statute 7 W. III. it is declared,... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1830 - 1086 páginas
...weakest and most suspicious of all testimony, ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces ; seldom remembered...precision ; and incapable in their nature of being dieproved by other negative evidence. 4* Bine. Com. 357* Ji'os/.243. SP The human mind, under the pressure... | |
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And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due... 
