 The word evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact the truth of which is submitted to investigation is established or disproved.  The Southeastern Reporter - Side 4011888Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1868 - 894 sider
...in the dead languages signifying " to see," " to know,") by ft natural sequence is applied to denote the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved ; circumstantial evidence is of a nature identical with direct evidence, the distinction being, that... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 480 sider
...derivation from words signifying to see, to know, and by a natural transition is applied to denote the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.1 It is not intended within the compass of this work to do more than state the principal... | |
 | 1868 - 654 sider
...the dead languages signifying "'•• see," " to know,") by a natural sequence is applied to denote the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...which is submitted to investigation, is established tr disproved ; circumstantial evidence is o!'n 'uture identical with direct evidence, the distio* lion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1870 - 708 sider
...great guarantees which God has given, that the perpetrators of crime shall not go unpunished. Evidence includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. None but mathematical proof is susceptible of that high degree of evidence called demonstration, which... | |
 | Charles W. Langdon - 1870 - 858 sider
...at issue (3 BI. Com. 367), or it is whatever is lawfully exhibited to a court and jury by which any matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 1; 1 Phil. Ev. 1. SEC. 2. This word and the- words "proof," "testimony" and "witness,"... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 sider
...truth respecting a question of fact, NOTE.' — Evidence in legal acceptation includes all the menus by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. — Sehloss vs. His Creditors, 31 Cal., p. 293; 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, p. 1; Wills on Circumstantial... | |
 | New York (State). Superior Court (New York), James Clark Spencer, Samuel Jones - 1876 - 608 sider
...thereof, may be made as is authorized and required by such law." "The word evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...indifferently, as synonymous with each other, but the latter is applied by the most accurate logicians to the effect of evidence, and not to the medinm by... | |
 | 1876 - 642 sider
...purpose as an element of defence. " Evidence in legal acceptation includes all the means by which an alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." " By competent evidence is meant that which the very nature of the thing to be proved requires as fit... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - 1880 - 761 sider
...as American courts. Evidence, according to this practically-educated lawyer, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. Without the aid of the legal profession, doubt and uncertainty would have still clouded the moral atmosphere,... | |
 | 1881 - 744 sider
...well as American courts. Evidence according to this practically educated lawyer, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved ; without the aid of the legal profession, doubt and uncertainty would have still clouded the moral... | |
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