 ... 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...  The Atlantic Reporter - Seite 1261914Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 Seiten
...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...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The JUDGES... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - 1816 - 218 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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. («)... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1825 - 696 Seiten
...rule a« to the time withjn which infants are excluded from giving evidence; bat their admissi. bility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the court; but if they are found incompetent, their testimony cannot be received."—East's Crown Law, 1, p. 144.... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1854 - 930 Seiten
...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...answers to questions propounded to them by the court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received." § 151. Brasier's... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1858 - 744 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The Judges... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1860 - 910 Seiten
...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...answers to questions propounded to them by the court; but if they are found incompetent, their testimony cannot be received." (East's Crown Law, vol. ip... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 Seiten
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their acluoissibility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The Judges... | |
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